Climatic backdrop to the terminal Pleistocene extinction of North American mammals

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1023-1026

  Polyak, Victor J ^a   Asmerom, Yemane ^a   Burns, Stephen J ^b   Lachniet, Matthew S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DATA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; GLACIAL CYCLES; GLACIAL TERMINATIONS; GREENLAND; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL; NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY DATA; RAPID TRANSITIONS; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; MAMMALS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

DROUGHT; EXTINCTION; MAMMAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SPELEOTHEM; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CARLSBAD CAVERNS; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84868684362     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33226.1     Document Type: Article

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