Insights from a synthesis of old and new climate-proxy data from the Pyramid and Winnemucca lake basins for the period 48 to 11.5calka

Quaternary International

Volumn 310, Issue , 2013, Pages 62-82

  Benson, L V ^a   Smoot, J P ^a   Lund, S P ^b   Mensing, S A ^c   Foit, F F ^d   Rye, R O ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLEROD; BOLLING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORE ANALYSIS; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HEINRICH EVENT; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SECULAR VARIATION; SEDIMENT CORE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NEVADA; PYRAMID LAKE [NEVADA]; UNITED STATES; WINNEMUCCA LAKE;

EID: 84884417263     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.02.040     Document Type: Article

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