Loess record of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition on the northern and central Great Plains, USA

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 17-18, 2008, Pages 1772-1783

  Mason, Joseph A ^a   Miao, Xiaodong ^b   Hanson, Paul R ^c   Johnson, William C ^d   Jacobs, Peter M ^e   Goble, Ronald J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FORMING; MOISTURE; OPTICAL CORRELATION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; WEATHERING;

SOIL FORMATIONS; YOUNGER DRYAS;

SILT;

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

PEORIA;

EID: 51249098955     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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