A 200,000-year record of late Quaternary Aeolian sedimentation on the Southern High Plains and nearby Pecos River Valley, USA

Aeolian Research

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 221-240

  Rich, J ^a   Stokes, S ^b  

^a WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMR Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Dunes; Eolian; Late Quaternary; Optical dating; Southern High Plains

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DATING METHOD; DROUGHT; DUNE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; EOLIAN PROCESS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION;

NEW MEXICO; PECOS VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

PECOS;

EID: 79954423400     PISSN: 18759637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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