Megadroughts and late Holocene dune activation at the eastern margin of the Great Plains, north-central Kansas, USA

Aeolian Research

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 101-110

  Hanson, P R ^a   Arbogast, A F ^b   Johnson, W C ^c   Joeckel, R M ^a,d   Young, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Dunes; Great Plains; Kansas; Optical dating

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ARIDITY; DATING METHOD; DROUGHT; DUNE FIELD; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; VEGETATION COVER;

GREAT PLAINS; KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 71849092121     PISSN: 18759637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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