Evidence for multiple, episodic, mid-Holocene Hypsithermal recorded in two soil profiles along an alluvial floodplain catena, southeastern Tennessee, USA

Quaternary Research

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 276-291

  Driese, Steven G ^a   Li, Zheng Hua ^b   McKay, Larry D ^b  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Floodplains; Mid Holocene soils; Paleoclimate; Southeastern US; Stable carbon isotopes

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CATENA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYCLICITY; EPISODIC EVENT; FLOODPLAIN; HYPSITHERMAL; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PEDOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

APPALACHIANS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREAT PLAINS; GULF OF MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; TENNESSEE; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40949142834     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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