A Reassessment of U-Th and 14C Ages for Late-Glacial High-Frequency Hydrological Events at Searles Lake, California

Quaternary Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-23

  Lin, Jo C ^a,d   Broecker, Wallace S ^a   Hemming, Sidney R ^a   Hajdas, Irena ^b   Anderson, Robert F ^a   Smith, George I ^c   Kelley, Maxwell ^a   Bonani, Georges ^b  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Great Basin; Hydrological balance; Jet stream westerlies; Late Pleistocene abrupt climate changes; Pluvial lakes; Radiocarbon dating; U Th dating; Western US

Indexed keywords

PALAEOHYDROLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

USA, CALIFORNIA, SEARLES LAKE;

EID: 0031831448     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1997.1949     Document Type: Article

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