Sensitive moisture response to Holocene millennial-scale climate variations in the Mid-Atlantic region, USA

Holocene

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-8

  Li, Yong Xiang ^a,b   Yu, Zicheng ^a   Kodama, Kenneth P ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate cycles; Environmental magnetism; Holocene; Lake level fluctuations; Millennial scale; Northeastern USA

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; HOLOCENE; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MARL; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); MICHIGAN; NEW JERSEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WHITE LAKE;

EID: 34548086216     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683606069386     Document Type: Article

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