Quantitative paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstruction using paleosols

ND Sheldon, NJ Tabor - Earth-science reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Paleosols (fossil soils) are preserved throughout the geologic record in depositional settings
ranging from alluvial systems to between basalt flows. Until recently, paleosols were studied …

Paleosols as indicators of paleoenvironment and paleoclimate

NJ Tabor, TS Myers - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Paleosols are ancient soils that have been incorporated into the geological record. Soils
form in response to interactions among the lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and …

Significance of different modes of rhizolith preservation to interpreting paleoenvironmental and paleohydrologic settings: examples from Paleogene paleosols …

MJ Kraus, ST Hasiotis - Journal of Sedimentary …, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Different modes of preservation of root traces (rhizoliths) provide information on soil-
moisture regimes in alluvial paleosols in the Paleogene Fort Union and Willwood formations …

Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa

JC Thompson, DK Wright, SJ Ivory, JH Choi… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Modern Homo sapiens engage in substantial ecosystem modification, but it is difficult to
detect the origins or early consequences of these behaviors. Archaeological …

Calcretes

AM Alonso-Zarza, VP Wright - Developments in sedimentology, 2010 - Elsevier
Calcretes (synonym: caliches) represent calcium-carbonate accumulations in a variety of
soils (and palaeosols) by pedogenic processes, as well as in surficial sediments in which …

Calcrete

VP Wright - Geochemical sediments and landscapes, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Calcrete is a general term given to the near-surface, terrestrial accumulation of
predominantly calcium carbonate, which occurs in a variety of forms from powdery to …

Fe-Mn concretions and nodules formation in redoximorphic soils and their role on soil phosphorus dynamics: Current knowledge and gaps

D Gasparatos, I Massas, A Godelitsas - Catena, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the last few years, phosphorus (P) has attracted the global interest because it is finite
and non-renewable resource. However, some aspects of P dynamics in soils are still unclear …

Natural speciation of Mn, Ni, and Zn at the micrometer scale in a clayey paddy soil using X-ray fluorescence, absorption, and diffraction

A Manceau, C Tommaseo, S Rihs, N Geoffroy… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2005 - Elsevier
The natural speciation of Mn (0.19 g/kg), Ni (46 mg/kg), and Zn (42 mg/kg) in the argillic
horizon (120 cm depth, pH= 5.6) of an Ultisol from a paddy soil in northern Taiwan was …

Geomicrobiology of cave ferromanganese deposits: a field and laboratory investigation

MN Spilde, DE Northup, PJ Boston… - Geomicrobiology …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Unusual ferromanganese deposits are found in several caves in New Mexico. The deposits
are enriched in iron and manganese by as much as three orders of magnitude over the …

Evaluating the use of weathering indices for determining mean annual precipitation in the ancient stratigraphic record

JS Adams, MJ Kraus, SL Wing - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2011 - Elsevier
Different quantitative methods have been developed to determine paleo-rainfall using
paleosols. Of particular interest are methods that use bulk geochemistry to calculate a …