Middle Moscovian climate of eastern equatorial Pangea recorded in paleosols and fluvial architecture

Abstract

Fluvial architecture in conjunction with the morphology, petrographical, mineralogical and geochemical composition of intercalated paleosols of the Middle Moscovian upper Radnice Member of the continental Kladno- Rakovník Basin, Czech Republic, were studied in order to decipher climatic signals in the eastern Pangea region during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age.

Keywords

• Carboniferous paleoclimate
• fluvial architectures
• paleosols
• geochemistry