Email this article Upper Cretaceous paleosols of the Bain-Dzak section, southern Mongolia
- Authors: Naugolnykh S.V.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Geological Institute
- Kazan Federal University
- Issue: Vol 50, No 12 (2016)
- Pages: 1451-1469
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0031-0301/article/view/166820
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030116120133
- ID: 166820
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Abstract
Three paleosol profiles (FPS-profiles) are described from the Djadokhta Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Campanian), outcropping in the Bain-Dzak section (southern Gobi aimag, Mongolia). The new data allow the climate at the time of the formation of the Late Cretaceous FPS-profiles to be interpreted as semiarid with seasonal precipitation. The isolated fossil roots of higher plants preserved in situ in the FPS-1 profile of the Bain-Dzak section are described as a new species, Radicites gobiensis Naugolnykh, sp. nov.
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S. V. Naugolnykh
Geological Institute; Kazan Federal University
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Email: naugolnykh@rambler.ru
Russian Federation, Pyzhevskii per. 7, Moscow, 119017; ul. Kremlevskaya 18, Kazan, 420008
