Responses of sediment geochemistry to climate change in Owens Lake sediment: An 800-k.y. record of saline/fresh cycles in core OL-92

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 317, Issue , 1997, Pages 37-47

  Bischoff, James L ^a   Fitts, Jeffrey P ^a,b   Fitzpatrick, John A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CLIMATE MODELS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LAKES; ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENTS;

CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITIES; CYCLIC VARIATIONS; GEOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; INTERGLACIAL CLIMATE; INTERGLACIAL PERIODS; MARINE OXYGEN ISOTOPES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEDIMENT GEOCHEMISTRIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALKALINITY; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORE ANALYSIS; GYPSUM; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SALINITY; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

CALIFORNIA; OWENS LAKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870778689     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2317-5.37     Document Type: Article

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