The stable isotope stratigraphy and paleosols of North America's most southern exposure of late Paleocene/Early Eocene fossiliferous continental deposits: documenting the initial Eocene thermal maximum in Big Bend National Park, Texas

• Main Author: White, Paul David
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: LSU Digital Commons 2005
• Subjects: stable isotopes; isotope ratios; global warming; global change; weathering; weathering of silicates; Eocene; chemostratigraphy; carbonate nodules; carbon; calcite; paleosols; Brewster County Texas; Big Bend National Park; initial Eocene thermal maximum; leaching; lower Eocene; Paleocene; Paleogene; paleotemperature; pedogenesis; tertiary; Cenozoic; Earth Sciences; Brewster; Carbonic acid
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/2299; https://doi.org/10.31390/gradschool_dissertations.2299; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/context/gradschool_dissertations/article/3298/viewcontent/uc.pdf

A chemostratigraphic section across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary, using the stable isotopes of carbon and oxygen, has been developed for North America's most southern exposure of early Paleogene continental deposits in which the boundary is constrained by fossil mammals. A negative carbon excu...