Late Holocene dune activity in the Eastern Platte River Valley, Nebraska

Geomorphology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 555-561

  Hanson, P R ^a   Joeckel, R M ^a,b   Young, A R ^a   Horn, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Eolian activity; Late Holocene; Loup River; Optical dating; Platte River

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT; DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN PROCESS; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOCLIMATE;

NEBRASKA; NORTH AMERICA; PLATTE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57349084273     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.07.018     Document Type: Article

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