A Holocene pollen record of persistent droughts from Pyramid Lake, Nevada, USA

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Mensing, Scott A, Benson, Larry V, Kashgarian, Michaele, Lund, Steve
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2004
• Subjects: Pyramid; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2004.04.002; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589404000596?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589404000596?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400026624

Pollen and algae microfossils preserved in sediments from Pyramid Lake, Nevada, provide evidence for periods of persistent drought during the Holocene age. We analyzed one hundred nineteen 1-cm-thick samples for pollen and algae from a set of cores that span the past 7630 years. The early middle Hol...