Holocene climate variability in Texas, USA: An integration of existing paleoclimate data and modeling with a new, high-resolution speleothem record

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 127, Issue , 2015, Pages 155-173

  Wong, Corinne I ^a   Banner, Jay L ^b   Musgrove, MaryLynn ^c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Holocene; Paleoclimate reconstruction; Speleothem; Texas

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TRACE ELEMENTS;

HOLOCENE CLIMATE VARIABILITY; HOLOCENES; PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; RECONSTRUCTION OF PAST CLIMATE; SPELEOTHEM; TEXAS; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; HOLOCENE; MOISTURE CONTENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SPELEOTHEM;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84945471107     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.06.023     Document Type: Article

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