Significance of different modes of rhizolith preservation to interpreting paleoenvironmental and paleohydrologic settings: examples from Paleogene paleosols …

MJ Kraus, ST Hasiotis - Journal of Sedimentary …, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Different modes of preservation of root traces (rhizoliths) provide information on soil-
moisture regimes in alluvial paleosols in the Paleogene Fort Union and Willwood formations …

Redoximorphic features

DL Lindbo, MH Stolt, MJ Vepraskas - Interpretation of micromorphological …, 2010 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary Redoximorphic features have been referred to by various terms over the
past decades. The terminology used to describe redoximorphic features is derived from …

Eocene hydromorphic Paleosols; significance for interpreting ancient floodplain processes

MJ Kraus, A Aslan - Journal of Sedimentary Research, 1993 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Pervasive mottling, iron-oxide nodules, and slickensides indicate that alluvial paleosols of
the lower Eocene Willwood Formation in the Elk Creek area of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming …

Transient drying during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM): analysis of paleosols in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

MJ Kraus, S Riggins - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2007 - Elsevier
The Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was a transient episode of global
warming that occurred at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary. The event is marked by a sharp …

Paleohydrologic response to continental warming during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

MJ Kraus, FA McInerney, SL Wing, R Secord… - Palaeogeography …, 2013 - Elsevier
Geologically rapid global warming occurred during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal
Maximum (PETM)~ 56Ma. Several studies have argued that important changes occurred in …

Evaluating the use of weathering indices for determining mean annual precipitation in the ancient stratigraphic record

JS Adams, MJ Kraus, SL Wing - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2011 - Elsevier
Different quantitative methods have been developed to determine paleo-rainfall using
paleosols. Of particular interest are methods that use bulk geochemistry to calculate a …

Estimating hydraulic properties of soil aggregate skins from sorptivity and water retention

HH Gerke, JM Köhne - Soil Science Society of America Journal, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Skins of soil aggregates often consist of clayey or clay‐organic coatings which may affect
preferential flow in aggregated soils. The objective was to determine hydraulic properties of …

Use of micromorphology for palaeoenvironmental interpretation of complex alluvial palaeosols: an example from the Mill Creek Formation (Albian), southwestern …

PJ McCarthy, IP Martini, DA Leckie - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 1998 - Elsevier
Field observations are often not sufficient for process-based interpretations of palaeosols,
particularly where they form parts of thick aggradational pedocomplexes within alluvial …

Aquic conditions for soil taxonomy: concepts, soil morphology and micromorphology

MJ Vepraskas, LP Wilding, LR Drees - Developments in soil science, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract Vepraskas, MJ, Wilding, LP and Drees, LR 1994. Aquic conditions for Soil
Taxonomy: concepts, soil morphology and micromorphology. In: AJ Ringrose-Voase and GS …

Genesis, morphology and mineralogy of Planosols developed from different parent materials in southern Brazil

LF da Silva, T Fruett, YL Zinn, AV Inda… - Geoderma, 2019 - Elsevier
The genesis of Planosols is a complex process since it can involve multiple cycles of soil
formation, deposition of allochthonous materials and also past climate changes …