50,000 years of vegetation and climate history on the Colorado Plateau, Utah and Arizona, USA

Quaternary Research

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 322-338

  Coats, Larry L ^a   Cole, Kenneth L ^b   Mead, Jim I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canyonlands National Park; Colorado Plateau; Grand Canyon National Park; Holocene; Middle Wisconsinan; Monsoon; Packrat middens; Paleoclimate; Paleoecology; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOSSIL; GLACIATION; MIDDEN; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; SHRUB; TREE; VEGETATION HISTORY; WISCONSINAN;

ARIZONA; CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK; COLORADO PLATEAU; GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

JUNIPERUS; PINUS EDULIS;

EID: 50449109738     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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