Late Quaternary lake-level changes constrained by radiocarbon and stable isotope studies on sediment cores from Lake Titicaca, South America

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 38, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 273-290

  Rowe, Harold D ^a,b,h   Guilderson, Thomas P ^c,d   Dunbar, Robert B ^a   Southon, John R ^c   Seltzer, Geoffrey O ^e   Mucciarone, David A ^a   Fritz, Sherilyn C ^f   Baker, Paul A ^g  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Humate; Humin; Lake sediments; Paleoclimate; Radiocarbon; South America

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAKE LEVEL; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT CORE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

LAKE TITICACA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0141677771     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(03)00031-6     Document Type: Article

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