Late Holocene dune migration on the south Texas sand sheet

Geomorphology

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 159-170

  Forman, Steven L ^a   Nordt, Lee ^a   Gomez, Jeaneth ^a   Pierson, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Dunes; Holocene drought; South Texas

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DROUGHT; DUNE; EOLIAN PROCESS; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TREE RING; VEGETATION;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67349282452     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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