Highest pluvial-lake shorelines and Pleistocene climate of the western Great Basin

Quaternary Research

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 196-205

  Reheis, Marith ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKE EVOLUTION; LAKE LEVEL; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SHORELINE CHANGE;

GREAT BASIN; NORTH AMERICA;

TRIFOLIUM;

EID: 0033395102     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1999.2064     Document Type: Article

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