Sediment-magnetic evidence for last millennium drought conditions at the prairie-forest ecotone of northern United States

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 337-338, Issue , 2012, Pages 99-107

  Lascu, Ioan ^a   McLauchlan, Kendra K ^b   Myrbo, Amy ^a   Leavitt, Peter R ^c   Banerjee, Subir K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biogenic magnetite; Drought; Little ice age; Minnesota; Prairie forest ecotone; Sediment magnetism

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DROUGHT; ECOTONE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETITE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRAIRIE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861459942     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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