Correlation of Late-Pleistocene Lake-Level Oscillations in Mono Lake, California, with North Atlantic Climate Events

Quaternary Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-10

  Benson, Larry V ^a   Lund, Steve P ^b   Burdett, James W ^c   Kashgarian, Michaele ^d   Rose, Timothy P ^d   Smoot, Joseph P ^a   Schwartz, Martha ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKE LEVEL CHANGE; PALAEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

USA, CALIFORNIA, MONO LAKE;

EID: 0031833294     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1997.1940     Document Type: Article

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