A 560-year record of Santa Ana fires reconstructed from charcoal deposited in the Santa Barbara Basin, California

Quaternary Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 295-305

  Mensing, Scott A ^a   Michaelsen, Joel ^b   Byrne, Roger ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire history; Microscopic charcoal; Santa Ana; Santa Barbara Basin; Varved sediments

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; FIRE HISTORY; HOLOCENE; LAND USE; PALYNOLOGY; VARVE;

CALIFORNIA; SANTA BARBARA BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032853047     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1999.2035     Document Type: Article

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