A 14 000 year sedimentary charcoal record of fire from the northern Sierra Nevada, Lake Tahoe Basin, California, USA

Holocene

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 347-358

  Beaty, R Matthew ^a   Taylor, Alan H ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

California.; Charcoal; Climate change; Fire history; Holocene; Sierra Nevada

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FIRE; FIRE HISTORY; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; INSOLATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CALIFORNIA; LAKE TAHOE BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

LILIUM;

EID: 67749124345     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683608101386     Document Type: Article

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