Reconstruction of the late Pleistocene grassland of the Columbia basin, Washington, USA, based on phytolith records in loess

Silica phytoliths preserved in three loess sections in southeastern Washington State revealed a 100 000-year history of the Columbia Basin grassland. Changes in the proportion of different morphotypes indicate large shifts in vegetation composition during the last 100 ka. A low-elevation section (67...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 2002-01, Vol.177 (1), p.77-101
Hauptverfasser:	Blinnikov, Mikhail, Busacca, Alan, Whitlock, Cathy
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Columbia Plateau grasslands modern analogs paleoecology phytoliths Pleistocene upper Pleistocene
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