Variability of Lake Michigan water level during the past 1000 years reconstructed through optical dating of a coastal strandplain

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 723-731

  Argyilan, Erin P ^a   Forman, Steven L ^b   Thompson, Todd A ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST   (United States)

^b Luminescence Dating Research Laboratory   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

beach ridge; Great Lakes; Lake Michigan; lake level; optical dating; OSL; radiocarbon

Indexed keywords

BEACH RIDGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL PLAIN; DATING METHOD; FACIES; GLACIOISOSTASY; HOLOCENE; LAKE LEVEL; OPTICAL METHOD; PEAT; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; WATER LEVEL;

DOOR COUNTY; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; HURON BASIN; LAKE MICHIGAN; LAKE SUPERIOR; MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 77955579050     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609358913     Document Type: Article

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