Fossil dino dirt (Re: Fastovsky vs Archibald)

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:16:11 -0700 (PDT) GUY LEAHY
<xrciseguy@prodigy.net> writes:

> A nice summary of Hell Creek
> paleosols can be found in:
 
> Retallack G.J. 1997.  Dinosaurs and
> Dirt.  In Dinofest International:
> proceedings of a symposium
> held at Arizona State University. 
> Edited by D.L. Wolberg, E. Stump, and
> G. Rosenberg. Academy of Natural
> Sciences; Philadelphia, Pa.,
> pp. 345-359.

 
Here are a couple more references on the subject of fossils soils in the
Hell Creek Fm.:

Retallack, G.J. 1990. Soils of the past. Unvin-Hyman, London. 520 p.

Retallack, G.J. 1996. Acid Trauma at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in
eastern Montana. G.S.A. Today 6(5):1-7.

Retallack, G.J., G.D. Leahy, and M.D. Spoon. 1987. Evidence from
paleosols for ecosystem changes across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary
in Montana. Geology 15: 1090-1093.

Fastovsky, D.E., K. McSweeney, and L.D. Norton. 1989. Pedogenic
development at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Garfield County,
Montana. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 59: 758-767.

Fastovsky, D.E. 1987. Paleoenviroments of vertebrate-bearing strata
during the Cretaceus-Paleogene transition, eastern Montana and western
North Dakota. Palaios 2: 282-295.


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