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

• Main Authors: Mensing, Scott A., Benson, Larry, Kashgarian, Michaele, Lund, Steve
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2004
• Subjects: Pyramid Lake; Nevada; Great Basin; Pollen; Drought; Holocene; Climate change; Earth Sciences; Geology; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Other Earth Sciences; Other Environmental Sciences; Pyramid; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsstaffpub/783; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/usgsstaffpub/article/1792/viewcontent/Benson_QR_2004_A_Holocene_pollen_record.pdf

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...