Drought drove forest decline and dune building in eastern upper Michigan, USA, as the upper Great Lakes became closed basins

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 315-318

  Loope, Walter L ^a   Loope, Henry M ^b   Goble, Ronald J ^c   Fisher, Timothy G ^d   Lytle, David E ^e   Legg, Robert J ^f   Wysocki, Douglas A ^g   Hanson, Paul R ^h   Young, Aaron R ^h  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^e Northern Michigan University ^*  (United States)

^f NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g USDA NRCS   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); FORESTRY; LAKES; LUMINESCENCE; ORBITS;

ATMOSPHERIC CLIMATE; CANOPY CLOSURES; CURRENT MODELS; EARLY HOLOCENE; FOREST HISTORY; HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; DUNE; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALYNOLOGY; QUARTZ;

CLIMATES; DROUGHT; GRASS LANDS; GREAT LAKES; LAKES; LUMINESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICHIGAN;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861371970     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32937.1     Document Type: Article

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