Isotopic evidence for Holocene climate change in the northern Rockies from a goethite-rich ferricrete chronosequence

Chemical Geology

Volumn 166, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 327-340

  Poage, Michael A ^a   Sjostrom, Derek J ^a   Goldberg, Judd ^a   Chamberlain, C Page ^a   Furniss, George ^b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ferricrete; Goethite; Holocene; Paleoclimate; Stable isotopes; Yellowstone National Park

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FERRICRETE; GOETHITE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034038832     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00220-X     Document Type: Article

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