From extreme rainfall to drought: 250 years of annually resolved sediment deposition in Santa Barbara Basin, California

Quaternary International

Volumn 387, Issue , 2015, Pages 3-12

  Hendy, Ingrid L ^a   Napier, Tiffany J ^a   Schimmelmann, Arndt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric river; Droughts; Floods; River runoff; Santa Barbara Basin; Scanning XRF

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOSITION; DROUGHT; EL NINO; LA NINA; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOFLOOD; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTATION; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SANTA BARBARA BASIN;

EID: 84947865014     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.026     Document Type: Article

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