Pollen analysis of Tulare Lake, California: Great Basin-like vegetation in Central California during the full-glacial and early Holocene

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 107, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 249-257

  Davis, Owen K ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; California; Climate change; Palynology; Quaternary; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL LAKE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CALIFORNIA; TULARE LAKE; UNITED STATES;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; ALGAE; AMARANTHACEAE; AMARANTHUS; ARTEMISIA; ASTERACEAE; BOTRYOCOCCUS; CUPRESSACEAE; CYPERACEAE; JUNIPERUS; PEDIASTRUM; PINUS; PINUS EDULIS; QUERCUS; SARCOBATUS; SEQUOIA; SEQUOIADENDRON; SPARGANIUM; TYPHA;

EID: 0032762656     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(99)00020-2     Document Type: Article

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