Palaeoweathering, Palaeosurfaces and Related Continental Deposits

Copyright © 1999 The International Association of Sedimentologists

Palaeoweathering, Palaeosurfaces and Related Continental Deposits

Editor(s): Médard Thiry, Régine Simon-Coinçon

Published Online: 14 APR 2009

Print ISBN: 9780632053117

Online ISBN: 9781444304190

DOI: 10.1002/9781444304190

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The study of palaeoweathering provides vital clues about past continental environments, the correlation of sedimentary deposits and processes such as the rate and timing of uplift and erosion.

This volume (based partly on research presented at IGCP 317 Palaeoweathering Records and Palaeosurfaces) contains contributions that use both geochemical and physical approaches to the study of palaeoweathering problems. The former are particularly relevant to our understanding of past climates and climate change; the latter have applications in the understanding of mass balance between rates of erosion and deposition.

Palaeoweathering, Palaeosurfaces and Related Continental Deposits illustrates the multidisciplinary nature of the subject, the diversity of techniques and, above all, the vital contribution the subject makes to the reconstruction of ancient continental environments. This book will be of great value to sedimentologists, soil scientists and geomorphologists.

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Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–ix)

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      Colour Plates (pages c1–c2)

  3. Introduction

    1. Problems, Progress and Future Research Concerning Palaeoweathering and Palaeosurfaces (pages 1–17)

      M. Thiry, J.-M. Schmitt and R. Simon-Coinçon

  4. Geochemistry and Isotopes

    1. Weathering, Rainwater and Atmosphere Chemistry: Example and Modelling of Granite Weathering in Present Conditions in a CO2-Rich, and in an Anoxic Palaeoatmosphere (pages 19–41)

      J.-M. Schmitt

    2. Stable Carbon Isotopes in Palaeosol Carbonates (pages 43–60)

      T. E. Cerling

    3. Palaeoenvironment, Palaeoclimate and Stable Carbon Isotopes of Palaeozoic Red-Bed Palaeosols, Appalachian Basin, USA and Canada (pages 61–84)

      C. I. Mora and S. G. Driese

  5. Peculiar Palaeoweathering Types

    1. Diversity of Continental Silicification Features: Examples from the Cenozoic Deposits in the Paris Basin and Neighbouring Basement (pages 85–127)

      M. Thiry

    2. Authigenic Clay Minerals in Continental Evaporitic Environments (pages 129–151)

      J. P. Calvo, M. M. Blanc-Valleron, J. P. Rodríguez-Arandía, J. M. Rouchy and M. E. Sanz

    3. Saprolite-Bauxite Facies of Ferralitic Duricrusts on Palaeosurfaces of Former Pangaea (pages 153–188)

      I. Valeton

    4. Karst Bauxites: Interfingering of Deposition and Palaeoweathering (pages 189–206)

      G. Bardossy and P.-J. Combes

    5. Precambrian Palaeosols: A View from the Canadian Shield (pages 207–221)

      Q. Gall

  6. Regional Palaeosurface and Palaeoweathering Recontruction

    1. Palaeolandscape Reconstruction of the South-Western Massif Central (France) (pages 223–243)

      R. Simon-Coinçon

    2. Lateritization, Geomorphology and Geodynamics of a Passive Continental Margin: The Konkan and Kanara Coastal Lowlands of Western Peninsular India (pages 245–274)

      M. Widdowson and Y. Gunnell

    3. Relief Features and Palaeoweathering Remnants in Formerly Glaciated Scandinavian Basement Areas (pages 275–301)

      K. Lidmar-Bergström, S. Olsson and E. Roaldset

    4. Palaeosol Sequences in Floodplain Environments: A Hierarchical Approach (pages 303–321)

      M. J. Kraus and A. Aslan

    5. Carbonate-Rich Palaeosols in the Late Cretaceous–Early Palaeogene Series of the Provence Basin (France) (pages 323–335)

      I. Cojan

    6. Sedimentary Innllings and Development of Major Tertiary Palaeodrainage Systems of South-Central Australia (pages 337–366)

      N. F. Alley, J. D. A. Clarke, M. Macphail and E. M. Truswell

    7. Weathering Surfaces, Laterite-Derived Sediments and Associated Mineral Deposits in North-East Africa (pages 367–390)

      T. Schwarz and K. Germann

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      Index (pages 391–406)

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