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 …

The emerging terrestrial record of Aptian-Albian global change

GA Ludvigson, RM Joeckel, LR Murphy, DF Stockli… - Cretaceous …, 2015 - Elsevier
The integration of terrestrial carbonate δ 13 C chemostratigraphy and radiometric dates is
opening a new window into the continental paleoclimate dynamics of the major carbon cycle …

Chronostratigraphy and paleoclimatology of the Lodève Basin, France: evidence for a pan-tropical aridification event across the Carboniferous–Permian boundary

LA Michel, NJ Tabor, IP Montañez, MD Schmitz… - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
Paleosols preserved within the Carboniferous–Permian succession of the Lodève Basin,
Massif Central, France change stratigraphically from Histosols to calcic Vertisols and …

Triple oxygen isotope compositions of globally distributed soil carbonates record widespread evaporation of soil waters

JR Kelson, TE Huth, BH Passey, NE Levin… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
The stable isotopic composition of pedogenic carbonates is central to many studies of past
climate and topography, providing a basis for our understanding of Earth's terrestrial history …

Combining soil water balance and clumped isotopes to understand the nature and timing of pedogenic carbonate formation

TM Gallagher, ND Sheldon - Chemical Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
Pedogenic carbonate is an important archive for paleoclimate, paleoecology, and
paleoelevation studies. However, it can form under seasonal environmental conditions that …

Variations in soil carbonate formation and seasonal bias over> 4 km of relief in the western Andes (30 S) revealed by clumped isotope thermometry

L Burgener, KW Huntington, GD Hoke… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry provides a new method for investigating long-
standing questions regarding seasonal biases in soil carbonate formation and the …

Modern soil system constraints on reconstructing deep-time atmospheric CO2

IP Montanez - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2013 - Elsevier
Paleosol carbonate-based estimates of paleo-atmospheric CO2 play a prominent role in
constraining radiative-forcing and climate sensitivity in the deep-time. Large uncertainty in …

Integrating paleobotanical, paleosol, and stratigraphic data to study critical transitions: a case study from the Late Cretaceous–Paleocene of India

SY Smith, SR Manchester, B Samant… - The Paleontological …, 2015 - cambridge.org
During the Cretaceous and Paleogene, the Indian subcontinent was isolated as it migrated
north from the east coast of Africa to collide with Asia. As it passed over the Reunion hotspot …

The disparity in the abundance of C4 plants estimated using the carbon isotopic composition of paleosol components

V Sarangi, S Agrawal, P Sanyal - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Long-term paleovegetational records from continental settings help in comprehending
regional and global forcing on the abundance of C 3-C 4 plants in the past. The carbon …

Carbon isotope ecology of gymnosperms and implications for paleoclimatic and paleoecological studies

ND Sheldon, SY Smith, R Stein, M Ng - Global and Planetary Change, 2020 - Elsevier
Plants are direct recorders of the environmental conditions in which they were growing
through their carbon assimilation. Both δ 13 C leaf (measured C isotopic composition of the …