Origin and paleoclimatic significance of late quaternary loess in Nebraska: Evidence from stratigraphy, chronology, sedimentology, and geochemistry

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 1378-1407

  Muhs, Daniel R ^a   Bettis III, E Arthur ^b   Aleinikoff, John N ^a   McGeehin, John P ^c   Beann, Jossh ^d   Skipp, Gary ^d   Marshall, Brian D ^a   Roberts, Helen M ^a   Johnson, William C ^e   Benton, Rachel ^f  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^f Badlands National Park   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL GREAT PLAINS; CLIMATE MODEL; COMPUTER-BASED MODELS; DUST GENERATION; DUST SOURCES; EOLIAN SEDIMENTS; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; HOLOCENES; ISOTOPIC DATA; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; LATE QUATERNARY; LOESS DEPOSITION; MISSOURIS; NEBRASKA; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; PALEOCLIMATIC SIGNIFICANCE; PLIOCENE; PRIMARY SOURCES; RADIOCARBON AGE; SAND HILLS; SILTSTONES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

DUST; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

SILT;

DEPOSITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAST GLACIAL; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOCLIMATE; PROVENANCE; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

NEBRASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PEORIA;

EID: 67651168506     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26221.1     Document Type: Article

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