200 k.y. paleoclimate record from Death Valley salt core

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-6

  Lowenstein, Tim K ^a   Li, Jianren ^a   Brown, Christopher ^a   Roberts, Sheila M ^b   Ku, Teh Lung ^c   Luo, Shangde ^c   Yang, Wenbo ^d  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER LEVELS;

ARID CONDITIONS; FLUID INCLUSION; GLACIAL LAKES; HOMOGENIZATION TEMPERATURES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEOCLIMATE RECORDS; PALEOCLIMATES; PERENNIAL LAKES;

LAKES;

CORE ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SALT;

CALIFORNIA; DEATH VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879885000     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0003:KYPRFD>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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