Late Pleistocene-Holocene lake-level fluctuations and paleoclimates at Canandaigua Lake, New York

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 311, Issue , 1996, Pages 65-76

  Wellner, Robert W ^a,b   Dwyer, Thomas R ^a,c  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^c Bouck and Lee Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION RATES; FERTILIZERS; FORESTRY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; FRESHWATER MARSHES; LAKE LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS; LATE PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; POSTGLACIAL RECORDS; STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK; TRANSGRESSION AND REGRESSION;

LAKES;

HOLOCENE; LAKE LEVEL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0006012664     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2311-6.65     Document Type: Article

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