Late Pleistocene paleoclimate in the Black Hills of South Dakota from isotope records in speleothems

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 203, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 1-17

  Serefiddin, Feride ^a   Schwarcz, Henry P ^a   Ford, Derek C ^a   Baldwin, Steve ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Hills; Quaternary; Speleothems; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPE;

BLACK HILLS; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

PHRAGMITES;

EID: 1642482534     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00639-4     Document Type: Article

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