Rapid response of alpine timberline vegetation to the Younger Dryas climate oscillation in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA

Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-54

  Reasoner, M A ^a   Jodry, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Palynology; Rapid change; Rocky Mountains; Timberline; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; VEGETATION;

PALYNOLOGY; RAPID CHANGE; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; TIMBERLINE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

LANDFORMS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; TREELINE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

COLORADO; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879889556     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<51:RROATV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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