Carbonate Paleosol Special Paper - a good read!

There is a great new Geological Society of America publication out now. It’s GSA Special Paper 416 – Paleoenvironmental Record and Applications of Calcretes and Palustrine Carbonates, edited by Ana Maria Alonso-Zarza and Lawrence H. Tanner. To be up front about this, I do have a paper in this volume. It’s entitled “Calcic pedocomplexes – regional sequence boundary indicators in Tertiary deposits of the Great Plains and western United States, p. 1-15. But, there are other – 13 in fact, equally good – papers in this volume that anyone who works in continental deposits should read. Topics range from paleosol catenas, palustrine carbonates, to age analysis of calcretes, and span time intervals from the Paleozoic to the Quaternary. The field studies are geographically diverse, including areas from South America, Anarctica, Europe, and the U.S.A. Anyways, this may be a Special Paper worth checking out.