Direct correlation of millennial-scale changes in western North American vegetation and climate with changes in the California current system over the past ∼60 kyr

Paleoceanography

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 252-262

  Heusser, Linda ^a,b  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; PALAEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT CORE; VEGETATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0031753622     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98PA00670     Document Type: Article

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