Holocene vegetation and climate history of the northern Bighorn Basin, southern Montana

Quaternary Research

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 171-181

  Lyford, Mark E ^a   Betancourt, Julio L ^b   Jackson, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Holocene; Paleoclimate; Paleoecology; Plant migration; Rocky Mountains; Woodrat middens

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; MIDDEN; PALEOCLIMATE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

BIGHORN BASIN; MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS; JUNIPERUS HORIZONTALIS; JUNIPERUS OSTEOSPERMA; JUNIPERUS SCOPULORUM;

EID: 0036767590     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.2002.2342     Document Type: Article

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