A Miocene to Pleistocene climate and elevation record of the Sierra Nevada (California)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 6819-6824

  Mulch, A ^a,b   Sarna Wojcicki, A M ^c   Perkins, M E ^d   Chamberlain, C P ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c United State Geological Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Hydrogen; Paleoaltimetry; Stable isotopes; Volcanic glass

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; RAIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MIOCENE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VOLCANIC ASH;

EID: 44449102331     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0708811105     Document Type: Article

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