Paleosols as indicators of paleoenvironment and paleoclimate

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue , 2015, Pages 333-361

  Tabor, Neil J ^a   Myers, Timothy S ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Paleoprecipitation; Paleosol classification; Paleosol morphology; Paleotemperature

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CARBON DIOXIDE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERALS; MORPHOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CHEMICAL INFORMATION; CLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENTS; PALEOPRECIPITATION; PALEOTEMPERATURES; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

DATING METHOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84930410976     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-060614-105355     Document Type: Article

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