TY - CHAP
T1 - Continental sediments
AU - Hendrix, Marc S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Continental sediments can provide an important basis for the interpretation of paleoclimate, including qualitative estimates of paleotemperature (hot vs. cold), annual precipitation (wet vs. dry), seasonality, and paleowind direction. However, care must be exercised in using the sedimentology or geochemistry of continental deposits to infer paleoclimate because of the wide range of influences that may control sediment composition and sedimentary architectures, the susceptibility of continental sediments to diagenetic overprinting, and the bias introduced through erosional deletion of significant portions of the sediment record.
AB - Continental sediments can provide an important basis for the interpretation of paleoclimate, including qualitative estimates of paleotemperature (hot vs. cold), annual precipitation (wet vs. dry), seasonality, and paleowind direction. However, care must be exercised in using the sedimentology or geochemistry of continental deposits to infer paleoclimate because of the wide range of influences that may control sediment composition and sedimentary architectures, the susceptibility of continental sediments to diagenetic overprinting, and the bias introduced through erosional deletion of significant portions of the sediment record.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85052807697&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4020-4411-3_47
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4020-4411-3_47
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85052807697
T3 - Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series
SP - 1014
EP - 1018
BT - Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series
PB - Springer Netherlands
ER -