Carbon stable isotope composition of modern calcareous soil profiles in California: Implications for CO2 reconstructions from calcareous paleosols

SEPM Special Publications

Volumn 104, Issue , 2013, Pages 17-34

  Tabor, Neil J ^a   Myers, Timothy S ^a   Gulbranson, Erik ^b   Rasmussen, Craig ^c   Sheldon, Nathan D ^d  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Carbon isotope; Oxygen isotope; Soil; Water balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940285718     PISSN: 1060071X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2110/sepmsp.104.07     Document Type: Article

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