Possible millennial-scale climate cycles and their effect on Tulare Lake, CA during the Late Pleistocene

• Main Author: Rubi, Lilian
• Other Authors: Negrini, Rob, Guo, Junhua, Gillespie, Jan
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: California State University, Bakersfield 2016
• Subjects: Climatic changes; Pleistocene Geologic Epoch; Lakes; Greenland; Lower Lake; Greenland ice core; ice core; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12680/9306t2236

Tulare Lake level predominantly fluctuates due to varying amounts of runoff from the Sierra Nevada as a result of changes in regional climate. It is important to constrain the details of such change because they allow us to capture the range of natural hydrologic variability for the San Joaquin Vall...