Last glacial maximum and Holocene lake levels of Owens Lake, eastern California, USA

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1264-1282

  Bacon, Steven N ^a   Burke, Raymond M ^a   Pezzopane, Silvio K ^a   Jayko, Angela S ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTS;

HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; PLUVIAL OWENS; TEPHRA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; LAKE LEVEL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; RECONSTRUCTION; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; OWENS LAKE; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744805411     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.10.014     Document Type: Article

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