On the identification and characterization of drought and aridity in postglacial paleoenvironmental records from the Northern Great Plains

Geographie Physique et Quaternaire

Volumn 56, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 229-246

  Beaudoin, Alwynne B ^a  

^a ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; DROUGHT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POSTGLACIAL; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TREE RING;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 3042637394     PISSN: 07057199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7202/009108ar     Document Type: Article

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