Southern California Climate and Vegetation Over the Past 125,000 Years from Lake Sequences in the San Bernardino Mountains

• Main Author: Glover, Katherine
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2016
• Subjects: Geography; Sedimentary geology; Geomorphology; alpine lake; drought; fossil pollen; paleoclimate; San Bernardino Mountains; southern California; Alpine Lake; Baldwin; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/86f0d2sb

Long sediment records from offshore and terrestrial basins in California show a history of vegetation and climatic change since the last interglacial (130,000 years BP). Vegetation sensitive to temperature and hydroclimatic change tended to be basin-specific, though the expansion of shrubs and herbs...