Pedothem carbonates reveal anomalous North American atmospheric circulation 70,000-55,000 years ago.

• Main Authors: Oerter, Erik J, Sharp, Warren D, Oster, Jessica L, Ebeling, Angela, Valley, John W, Kozdon, Reinhard, Orland, Ian J, Hellstrom, John, Woodhead, Jon D, Hergt, Janet M, Chadwick, Oliver A, Amundson, Ronald
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2016
• Subjects: Marine Isotope Stage 4; U-series dating; carbon oxygen uranium isotopes; paleoclimate; pedogenic carbonate; Pacific; Wind River; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0kp7g77b

Our understanding of climatic conditions, and therefore forcing factors, in North America during the past two glacial cycles is limited in part by the scarcity of long, well-dated, continuous paleoclimate records. Here, we present the first, to our knowledge, continuous, millennial-resolution paleoc...