A new noble gas paleoclimate record in Texas - Basic assumptions revisited

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 257, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 170-187

  Castro, Maria Clara ^a   Hall, Chris Michael ^a   Patriarche, Delphine ^b   Goblet, Patrick ^c   Ellis, Brian Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CEA DIF   (France)

^c CENTRE DE GÉOSCIENCES   (France)

Author keywords

dispersion; groundwater flow modeling; high frequency climatic signals; noble gas temperatures; simulation of groundwater ages

Indexed keywords

HIGH-FREQUENCY CLIMATIC SIGNALS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM (LGM); MEAN ANNUAL ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE (MAAT);

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSIONS; INERT GASES; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS); THERMOMETERS;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE SIGNAL; COOLING; HEAT FLOW; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NOBLE GAS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; VADOSE ZONE;

CALIFORNIA; CARRIZO PLAIN; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

CALLUNA VULGARIS; CARRIZO; JUNIPERUS SABINA;

EID: 34247097463     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.02.030     Document Type: Article

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