Assessing the response of watersheds to catastrophic (logging) and possible secular (global temperature change) perturbations using sediment-chemical chronologies

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 143-158

  Long, David T ^a   Parsons, Matthew J ^a   Yansa, Catherine H ^a   Yohn, Sharon S ^b   McLean, Colleen E ^a   Vannier, Ryan G ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JUNIATA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION OF; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; FOUR-GROUP; GEOCHEMICAL PROFILES; GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGE; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; LITTLE ICE AGE; NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN; OLIGOTROPHIC LAKES; PROXY GROUP; REFERENCE CONDITION; REGIME SHIFT; SEDIMENT CORE; STABLE STATE; TEMPORAL TRENDS; WATERSHED RUNOFF;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALCIUM; CHEMICAL STABILITY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; LANDFORMS; LEAD; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATERSHEDS;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE; LITTLE ICE AGE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PERTURBATION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; WATERSHED; WELL LOGGING;

ELK LAKE; MICHIGAN; MINNESOTA; MULLETT LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72149092234     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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