A regional-scale climate reconstruction of the last 4000 years from lakes in the Nebraska Sand Hills, USA

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 13-14, 2011, Pages 1797-1812

  Schmieder, J ^a   Fritz, S C ^a   Swinehart, J B ^b   Shinneman, A L C ^a   Wolfe, A P ^c   Miller, G ^d   Daniels, N ^d   Jacobs, K C ^a   Grimm, E C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e RESEARCH AND COLLECTIONS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diatoms; Droughts; Great plains; Holocene; Lakes; Nebraska sand hills; Paleolimnology

Indexed keywords

DIATOMS; GREAT PLAINS; HOLOCENES; NEBRASKA; PALEOLIMNOLOGY;

DROUGHT; LAKES; SAND;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DIATOM; DROUGHT; DUNE; LAKE LEVEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION;

GREAT PLAINS; ITALY; NEBRODI MOUNTAINS; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SICILY;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 79957992426     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.011     Document Type: Article

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