Summary of the Snowmastodon Project Special Volume. A high-elevation, multi-proxy biotic and environmental record of MIS 6-4 from the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 618-634

  Miller, Ian M ^a   Pigati, Jeffrey S ^b   Scott Anderson, R ^c   Johnson, Kirk R ^a,d   Mahan, Shannon A ^b   Ager, Thomas A ^b   Baker, Richard G ^e   Blaauw, Maarten ^f   Bright, Jordon ^g   Brown, Peter M ^h   Bryant, Bruce ^b   Calamari, Zachary T ⁱ   Carrara, Paul E ^b   Cherney, Michael D ⁱ   Demboski, John R ^a   Elias, Scott A ^j   Fisher, Daniel C ⁱ   Gray, Harrison J ^b   Haskett, Danielle R ^k   Honke, Jeffrey S ^b   Jackson, Stephen T ^l,m   Jiménez Moreno, Gonzalo ⁿ   Kline, Douglas ^a   Leonard, Eric M ^o   Lifton, Nathaniel A ^p   Lucking, Carol ^a   Gregory McDonald, H ^q   Miller, Dane M ^l   Muhs, Daniel R ^s   Nash, Stephen E ^b   Newton, Cody ^r   Paces, James B ^b   Petrie, Lesley ^s   Plummer, Mitchell A ^t   Porinchu, David F ^k   Rountrey, Adam N ^i,u   Scott, Eric ^v   Sertich, Joseph J W ^a   Sharpe, Saxon E ^w   Skipp, Gary L ^b   Strickland, Laura E ^b   Stucky, Richard K ^a   Thompson, Robert S ^b   Wilson, Jim ^x   more..

^a DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^g University of Arizona   (United States)

^h Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^o Department of Psychology   (United States)

^p PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^t IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^v San Bernardino County Museum   (United States)

^w DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^x Aeon Laboratories   (United States)

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Author keywords

Mammut americanum; Mammuthus columbi; Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage; Paleoclimate; Pleistocene megafauna; Rocky Mountains; Sangamon interglacial; Ziegler Reservoir

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION; FISH; ISOTOPES; PLANTS (BOTANY); RURAL AREAS; STRATIGRAPHY;

MAMMUT AMERICANUM; MAMMUTHUS COLUMBI; MARINE OXYGEN ISOTOPES; MEGAFAUNA; PALEOCLIMATES; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SANGAMON INTERGLACIAL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; BIOSPHERE; CLIMATE VARIATION; FOSSIL RECORD; INTERGLACIAL; MAMMAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE;

COLORADO; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SNOWMASS CANYON; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; AVES; BISON; CAMELIDAE; CANIS LATRANS; CASTORIDAE; CERVIDAE; EQUIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; LUTRINAE; MAMMUT AMERICANUM; MAMMUTHUS COLUMBI; MUSTELA; ONDATRA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVIS CANADENSIS; SALAMANDROIDEA; SERPENTES; SLOTHS; SQUAMATA; URSUS AMERICANUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84947648911     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2014.07.004     Document Type: Article

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