The formation of beds underlying carbonaceous shales as aquic paleosols: Examples from the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming

Engineering & Materials Science

• Carbonaceous shale 100%
• Soils 21%
• Sediments 16%
• Sedimentology 13%
• Water 11%
• Mineralogy 10%
• Biological materials 9%
• Iron oxides 8%
• Leaching 8%
• Groundwater 8%
• Shale 7%
• Minerals 6%
• Drying 6%
• Oxidation 6%
• Coal 5%
• Oxygen 5%
• Substrates 4%
• Degradation 4%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• paleosol 51%
• shale 37%
• basin 24%
• mudstone 11%
• soil 7%
• soil formation 7%
• sedimentology 6%
• swamp 6%
• alluvial deposit 6%
• Paleocene 6%
• coal seam 5%
• iron oxide 5%
• water table 5%
• floodplain 5%
• Eocene 5%
• mineralogy 5%
• preserve 5%
• drying 5%
• leaching 4%
• saturation 4%
• substrate 4%
• organic matter 4%
• oxidation 3%
• degradation 3%
• oxygen 3%
• water 3%
• groundwater 3%
• mineral 3%
• sediment 2%
• material 2%