The importance of eolian abrasion in supermature quartz sandstones and the paradox of weathering on vegetation-free landscapes

RH Dott, Jr - The Journal of Geology, 2003 - journals.uchicago.edu
Pure quartz arenites are especially characteristic of lower Paleozoic and Proterozoic strata
deposited in nonorogenic settings. A century-long debate over the origin of these …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative analysis of aeolian stratigraphic architectures preserved in different tectonic settings

GIE Cosgrove, L Colombera, NP Mountney - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite a well-documented record of preserved sedimentary architectures of aeolian
successions from a variety of different sedimentary basin types, relationships between …

Aeolian sand sea development along the mid‐Cretaceous western Tethyan margin (Spain): erg sedimentology and palaeoclimate implications

JP RODRÍGUEZ‐LÓPEZ, N Melendez… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The existence of a mid‐Cretaceous erg system along the western Tethyan margin (Iberian
Basin, Spain) was recently demonstrated based on the occurrence of wind‐blown desert …

Precambrian aeolian systems: A unique record?

GIE Cosgrove, L Colombera, NP Mountney… - Precambrian …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Precambrian is associated with a set of geologically unique palaeoenvironmental
conditions arising from differences in the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere and geosphere …

Climate‐induced sediment‐palaeosol cycles in a Late Cretaceous dry aeolian sand sheet: Marília Formation (North‐West Bauru Basin, Brazil)

G Basilici, PFF Dal Bó, FSB Ladeira - Sedimentology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Aeolian sand sheets, which are characterized by low relief surfaces that lack dunes, are
common in arid and semi‐arid climatic settings. The surface of an aeolian sand sheet can …

Late Pennsylvanian aridification in Gondwana mid-latitudes contemporaneous to high-latitudes ice cap expansion, upper Piauí Formation, Brazil

C Kifumbi, CM dos Santos Scherer… - Journal of South …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Pennsylvanian Epoch was marked by a well-known glaciation period
documented in several basins across the Gondwana. However, stratigraphic data from the …

Reinterpretación estratigráfica y sedimentológica de las formaciones Escucha y Utrillas de la Cordillera Ibérica

El desarrollo de un sistema desértico arenoso (erg) cretácico ha sido reconocido a partir de
estudios estratigráficos, sedimentológicos, paleoclimáticos, paleogeográficos y de relación …

Sedimentology of the proximal portion of a large-scale, Upper Jurassic fluvial-aeolian system in Paraná Basin, southwestern Gondwana

AD dos Reis, CM dos Santos Scherer… - Journal of South …, 2019 - Elsevier
Upper Jurassic sedimentary rocks of Guará Formation record the environmental and
geotectonic changes of the early break-up stages in the southwestern portion of Gondwana …

Revisiting the boundary between the Lower and Upper Vindhyan, Son valley, India

S Mandal, A Choudhuri, I Mondal, S Sarkar… - Journal of Earth System …, 2019 - Springer
The placement of the boundary between the Lower and the Upper Vindhyan in the Son
valley, an unconformity, has long been at the centre of a raging debate. At the Bundelkhand …

The role of subsidence and accommodation generation in controlling the nature of the aeolian stratigraphic record

GIE Cosgrove, L Colombera… - Journal of the Geological …, 2022 - lyellcollection.org
Despite a well-documented record of preserved aeolian successions from sedimentary
basins characterized by widely variable subsidence rates, the relationship between aeolian …