Evidence of cyclic dust deposition in the US Great plains during the last deglaciation from the high-resolution analysis of the Peoria Loess in the Eustis sequence (Nebraska, USA)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 159-174

  Rousseau, Denis Didier ^a,b,c   Antoine, Pierre ^d   Kunesch, Stéphane ^d   Hatté, Christine ^e,f   Rossignol, Julien ^a   Packman, Susan ^g   Lang, Andreas ^g   Gauthier, Caroline ^e  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d LABORATOIRE DE GÉOGRAPHIE PHYSIQUE   (France)

^e LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^f NSF Arizona AMS Laboratory   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

eolian dynamics; Eustis; grain size; last deglaciation; loess deposits; Nebraska; peoria loess; USA

Indexed keywords

EOLIAN DYNAMICS; LAST GLACIATION; LOESS DEPOSITS; PEORIA LOESS;

GLACIERS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

STRATIGRAPHY;

DEPOSITION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; HEINRICH EVENT; LAST DEGLACIATION; LITHOLOGY; LOESS; PLEISTOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

NEBRASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PEORIA;

EID: 34548861460     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.016     Document Type: Article

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