Environmental influences on speleothem growth in southwestern Oregon during the last 380 000 years

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 279, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 316-325

  Ersek, Vasile ^a   Hostetler, Steven W ^a   Cheng, Hai ^b   Clark, Peter U ^a   Anslow, Faron S ^a   Mix, Alan C ^a   Edwards, R Lawrence ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

climate modeling; Oregon; paleoclimate; speleothem; U th dating

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; OREGON; PALEOCLIMATE; SPELEOTHEM; U-TH DATING;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CAVES; CLIMATOLOGY; PERMAFROST;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RUNOFF; SPELEOTHEM; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 61349108703     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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