An 800,000-year pollen record from Owens Lake, California: Preliminary analyses

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 317, Issue , 1997, Pages 127-142

  Litwin, R J ^a   Adam, D P ^b   Frederiksen, N O ^a   Woolfenden, W B ^c,d  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LAKES; LANDFORMS;

CONIFEROUS FORESTS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA; VEGETATION CHANGE; VEGETATION COMPOSITION; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION;

VEGETATION;

CORE ANALYSIS; FOSSIL RECORD; HERB; PALEOBOTANY; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN RAIN; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SCRUB; VEGETATION TYPE;

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

EID: 84870827520     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2317-5.127     Document Type: Article

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