A 10,000 year record of dune activity, dust storms, and severe drought in the central Great Plains

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 119-122

  Miao, Xiaodong ^a   Mason, Joseph A ^a   Swinehart, James B ^b   Loope, David B ^b   Hanson, Paul R ^b   Goble, Ronald J ^b   Liu, Xiaodong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Drought; Eolian sand; Great Plains; Holocene; Loess; Medieval Climate Anomaly; OSL dating

Indexed keywords

EOLIAN SAND; HOLOCENE; LOESS DEPOSITS; GREAT PLAINS; HOLOCENES; LOESS; MEDIEVAL CLIMATE ANOMALIES; OSL DATING;

DROUGHT; DUST; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; LUMINESCENCE; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; SURFACE WATERS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; DUNE; DUST STORM; EOLIAN PROCESS; HOLOCENE; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; STRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; LUMINESCENCE; MEDIEVAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 33846899818     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23133A.1     Document Type: Article

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