Late Quaternary paleohydrologic and paleotemperature change in southern Nevada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 368, Issue , 2003, Pages 165-188

  Quade, Jay ^a   Forester, Richard M ^b   Whelan, Joseph F ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; ISOTOPES; STRATIGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE; WETLANDS;

BOTTOM TEMPERATURE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MEAN ANNUAL AIR TEMPERATURES; PALEOTEMPERATURES; RADIOCARBON DATING; SPECIES ASSEMBLAGE; SPRING DISCHARGES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CONTRACTION; DESICCATION; FOSSIL RECORD; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; OSTRACOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; SPRING WATER; WATER TEMPERATURE;

CALIFORNIA; DEATH VALLEY; GREAT BASIN; OWENS LAKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870901183     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2368-X.165     Document Type: Article

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