A high-resolution record of climate variability and landscape response from Kettle Lake, northern Great Plains, North America

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 19-20, 2011, Pages 2626-2650

  Grimm, Eric C ^a   Donovan, Joseph J ^b   Brown, Kendrick J ^c  

^a RESEARCH AND COLLECTIONS CENTER   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

9.3 ka event; Ambrosia; Aragonite; Charcoal; Endogenic carbonate precipitation; Holocene drought; Lake Agassiz; Northern Great Plains; Pollen; Selaginella densa

Indexed keywords

9.3 KA EVENT; AMBROSIA; ARAGONITE; ENDOGENIC CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; HOLOCENES; NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS; POLLEN; SELAGINELLA DENSA;

CARBONATE MINERALS; CHARCOAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DROUGHT; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; LAKES; MOISTURE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SILICATE MINERALS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARAGONITE; CALCITE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CHARCOAL; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEPOSITION; DROUGHT; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HOLOCENE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PALEOECOLOGY; POLLEN; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

KETTLE LAKE; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

AMBROSIA; SELAGINELLA; SELAGINELLA DENSA;

EID: 80051886293     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.05.015     Document Type: Article

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