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Table of Contents - Special Paper 416

Paleoenvironmental Record and Applications of Calcretes and Palustrine Carbonates

edited by Ana María Alonso-Zarza, Lawrence H. Tanner


Preface v

Ancient Landscapes, Climate and Sequence Boundaries
1. Calcic pedocomplexes — Regional sequence boundary indicators in Tertiary deposits of the Great Plains and western United States
D.L. Hanneman and C.J. Wideman		 1
2. A Late Triassic soil catena: Landscape and climate controls on paleosol morphology and chemistry across the Carnian-age Ischigualasto–Villa Union basin, northwestern Argentina
N.J. Tabor, I.P. Montañez, K.A. Kelso, B. Currie, T. Shipman, and C. Colombi		 17
3. Investigating paleosol completeness and preservation in mid-Paleozoic alluvial paleosols: A case study in paleosol taphonomy from the Lower Old Red Sandstone
S.B. Marriott and V.P. Wright		 43
4. Calcareous paleosols of the Upper Triassic Chinle Group, Four Corners region, southwestern United States: Climatic implications

L.H. Tanner and S.G. Lucas		 53
5. Estimates of atmospheric CO2 levels during the mid-Turonian derived from stable isotope composition of paleosol calcite from Israel
A. Sandler		 75
6. Pedogenic carbonate distribution within glacial till in Taylor Valley, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica
K.K. Foley, W.B. Lyons, J.E. Barrett, and R.A. Virginia		 89

Sedimentary Environments and Facies
7. Calcretes, oncolites, and lacustrine limestones in Upper Oligocene alluvial fans of the Montgat area (Catalan Coastal Ranges, Spain)
D. Parcerisa, D. Gómez-Gras, and J.D. Martín-Martín		 105
8. The role of clastic sediment influx in the formation of calcrete and palustrine facies: A response to paleographic and climatic conditions in the southeastern Tertiary Duero basin (northern Spain)
I. Armenteros and P. Huerta		 119
9. The Upper Triassic crenogenic limestones in Upper Silesia (southern Poland) and their paleoenvironmental context
J. Szulc, M. Gradzi´nski, A. Lewandowska, and C. Heunisch		 133
10. A recent analogue for palustrine carbonate environments: The Quaternary deposits of Las Tablas de Daimiel wetlands, Ciudad Real, Spain
A.M. Alonso-Zarza, M. Dorado-Valiņo, A. Valdeolmillos-Rodríguez, and M. Blanca Ruiz-Zapata		 153
11. Depositional conditions of carbonate-dominated palustrine sedimentation around the K-T boundary (Faciès Rognacien, northeastern Pyrenean foreland, southwestern France)
D. Marty and C.A. Meyer		 169
12. Reworked Microcodium calcarenites interbedded in pelagic sedimentary rocks (Paleocene, Subbetic, southern Spain): Paleoenvironmental reconstruction
J.M. Molina, J.A. Vera, and R. Aguado		 189

Dating of Calcretes: Applications
13. Calcite cement stratigraphy of a nonpedogenic calcrete in the Triassic New Haven Arkose (Newark Supergroup)
E.T. Rasbury, E.H. Gierlowski-Kordesch, J.M. Cole, C. Sookdeo, G. Spataro, and J. Nienstedt		 203
14. Calcrete features and age estimates from U/Th dating: Implications for the analysis of Quaternary erosion rates in the northern limb of the Sierra Nevada range (Betic Cordillera, southeast Spain)
J.M. Azañón, P. Tuccimei, A. Azor, I.M. Sánchez-Almazo, A.M. Alonso-Zarza, M. Soligo, and J.V. Pérez-Peña		 223