A 1200 year record of hydrologic variability in the Sierra Nevada from sediments in Walker Lake, Nevada

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Yuan, Fasong ^a,b   Linsley, Braddock K ^a   Lund, Steve P ^c   McGeehin, John P ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrologic variability; Lake sediments; Last millennium; Oxygen isotopes; Sierra Nevada; Walker Lake

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042789449     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GC000652     Document Type: Article

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