A diatom-based paleohydrologic record of climate change for the past 800 k.y. from Owens Lake, California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 317, Issue , 1997, Pages 99-112

  Bradbury, J Platt ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITS; ISOTOPES; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; WATER;

DIATOM ASSEMBLAGE; FRESHWATER DIATOMS; LAKE DEPOSITS; MARINE DEPOSITS; MASS ACCUMULATION RATES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; RADIOCARBON DATES; SHORT-INTERVAL;

LAKES;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DIATOM; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PLANKTON; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; SALINITY;

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

EID: 84870857871     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2317-5.99     Document Type: Article

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