Chronology of expansion and contraction of four great Basin lake systems during the past 35,000 years

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology - Tập 78 Số 3-4 - Trang 241-286 - 1990
Larry Benson1, Donald R. Currey2, Ronald I. Dorn3, K.R. Lajoie4, Charles G. Oviatt5, S. W. Robinson6, George I. Smith7, Scott Stine8
1U.S. Geological Survey, MS 403, Denver, CO 80225 U.S.A.
2Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 U.S.A.
3Geography Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 U.S.A.
4U.S. Geological Survey, MS 977, Menlo Park, CA 94025, U.S.A.
5Department of Geology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, U.S.A.
6U.S. Geological Survey, MS 937, Menlo Park, CA 94025 U.S.A.
7U.S. Geological Survey, MS 902, Menlo Park, CA 94025 U.S.A.
8Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Palisades, NY 10964 U.S.A.

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