Late Glacial and Holocene record of climatic change in the southern Rocky Mountains from sediments in San Luis Lake, Colorado, USA

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 392, Issue , 2013, Pages 146-160

  Yuan, Fasong ^a   Koran, Max R ^a   Valdez, Andrew ^b  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve   (United States)

Author keywords

Holocene; Late Glacial; North American monsoon; Rocky Mountains; San Luis Lake; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEGLACIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; INTERSTADIAL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LATITUDE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84885129094     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.09.016     Document Type: Article

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