A 180,000-year pollen record from Owens Lake, CA: Terrestrial vegetation change on orbital sales

Quaternary Research

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 430-444

  Woolfenden, Wallace B ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Climate change; Glacial cycles; Owens Valley; Paleocology; Pollen records; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; POLLEN; QUATERNARY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CALIFORNIA; OWENS LAKE; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; INYO; JUNIPERUS; PINUS EDULIS;

EID: 0037699378     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-5894(03)00033-4     Document Type: Article

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