Phytolith and Carbon Isotope Evidence for Late Quaternary Vegetation and Climate Change in the Southern Black Hills, South Dakota

Quaternary Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 206-217

  Fredlund, Glen G ^a   Tieszen, Larry L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b AUGUSTANA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POACEAE;

C4; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATIC CHANGE; DENUDATION; GRASSLAND; GRASSLANDS; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; PHYTOLITH; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY VEGETATION; SOIL DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION CHANGE;

USA, SOUTH DAKOTA, BLACK HILLS;

EID: 0031430637     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1996.1862     Document Type: Article

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