High-resolution chemostratigraphic record of late Pleistocene lake-level variability, Mono Lake, California

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 2320-2334

  Zimmerman, Susan R H ^a   Hemming, Sidney R ^a   Hemming, N Gary ^b   Tomascak, Paul B ^c   Pearl, Crystal ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE SYSTEM; GEOCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GROUND TRUTHING; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAKE CHEMISTRY; LAKE LEVELS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MONO LAKE; OSTRACODES; PHYSICAL EVIDENCE; SEDIMENTARY FACIES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBONATION; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRONTIUM; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

LAKES;

CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; OSTRACOD; OUTCROP; PLEISTOCENE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

CALIFORNIA; MONO LAKE; UNITED STATES;

OSTRACODA;

EID: 81355152599     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30377.1     Document Type: Article

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