Climate change: Early local last glacial maximum in the tropical Andes

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5722, 2005, Pages 678-681

  Smith, Jacqueline A ^a   Seltzer, Geoffrey O ^a   Farber, Daniel L ^b   Rodbell, Donald T ^c   Finkel, Robert C ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE; MARINE ENGINEERING; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

GLACIAL CYCLE; ICE VOLUMES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; TROPICAL ANDES;

GLACIERS;

BERYLLIUM; SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE;

ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; GLACIER; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; TROPICS;

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 17844367578     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1107075     Document Type: Article

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33. We acknowledge financial and/or material support from the National Geographic Society (grant 7188-02), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Geological Society of America, Union College, Syracuse University, and NSF (grant ATM-0081517). We are grateful to two anonymous reviewers whose comments and suggestions substantially improved the manuscript. We dedicate this report to the memory of our coauthor, colleague, and friend, Geoff Seltzer, who was an integral part of the project from beginning to end.