Prospects for interregional correlations using Wisconsin and Holocene aridity episodes, northern Gulf of Mexico coastal plain

Quaternary Research

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 105-118

  Otvos, Ervin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coastal dunes; Eolian sedimentation cycles; Late Quaternary; Prairie mounds

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUNE; EOLIAN FEATURE; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOCLIMATE; WISCONSINAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 1542347877     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2003.08.006     Document Type: Article

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