Holocene Climate in the Northern Great Plains Inferred from Sediment Stratigraphy, Stable Isotopes, Carbonate Geochemistry, Diatoms, and Pollen at Moon Lake, North Dakota

Quaternary Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 359-369

  Valero Garcés, Blas L ^a,d   Laird, Kathleen R ^a,e   Fritz, Sherilyn C ^b   Kelts, Kerry ^a   Ito, Emi ^a   Grimm, Eric C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RESEARCH AND COLLECTIONS CENTER   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diatoms; Drought; Geochemistry; Holocene; Hydrology; Isotopes; Northern Great Plains; Paleoclimate; Paleolimnology; Saline lakes; Sedimentology

Indexed keywords

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 0000269432     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1997.1930     Document Type: Article

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