A 19,000-year record of hydrologic and climatic change inferred from diatoms from Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 450, Issue , 2009, Pages 229-246

  Moser, Katrina A ^a   Kimball, James P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVERS;

CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC REGIMES; DIATOM ASSEMBLAGE; HYDROLOGIC BALANCE; LAKE EVAPORATION; LAKE SEDIMENT CORES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS;

LAKES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIATOM; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; ICE COVER; LAKE LEVEL; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TRANSGRESSION; TURBIDITY;

BEAR LAKE; BEAR RIVER; CANADA; IDAHO; UNITED STATES; UTAH; YUKON TERRITORY;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 75449095017     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2450(10)     Document Type: Article

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