Climatic signals in clay mineralogy and grain-size variations in Owens Lake core OL-92, southeast California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 317, Issue , 1997, Pages 25-36

  Menking, Kirsten M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FELDSPAR; FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LAKES; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTS; UNDERWATER MINERAL RESOURCES; UNDERWATER MINERALOGY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CLAY-SIZE FRACTION; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC OSCILLATIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GRAIN SIZE VARIATION; INTERGLACIAL SEDIMENTS; LAKE-LEVEL VARIATIONS; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION;

CLAY MINERALS;

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CORE ANALYSIS; FELDSPAR; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRAIN SIZE; ILLITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SMECTITE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CALIFORNIA; OWENS LAKE; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870787519     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2317-5.25     Document Type: Article

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