Soil development on modern distributive fluvial systems: Preliminary observations with implications for interpretation of paleosols in the rock record

SEPM Special Publications

Volumn 104, Issue , 2013, Pages 149-158

  Hartley, Adrian J ^a   Weissmann, Gary S ^b   Bhattacharayya, Proma ^b   Nichols, Gary J ^c   Scuderi, Louis A ^b   Davidson, Stephanie K ^a   Leleu, Sophie ^a,d   Chakraborty, Tapan ^e   Ghosh, Parthasarathi ^e   Mather, Anne E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d EA4592 GandE ENSEGID Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux ^*  (France)

^e INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Distributive fluvial system; Paleosols; Sedimentary basins

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930391226     PISSN: 1060071X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2110/sepmsp.104.10     Document Type: Article

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