Elk Lake, Minnesota : evidence for rapid climate change in the north-central United States / edited by J. Platt Bradbury and Walter E. Dean.
| Uniform Title: | Special papers (Geological Society of America) ;
276. |
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| Other Authors: | |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boulder, Colo. :
Geological Society of America,
[1993], ©1993.
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| Series: | Special papers (Geological Society of America) ;
276. |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- ch. 1. Elk Lake in perspective / Roger Y. Anderson, Walter E. Dean, and J. Pratt Bradbury
- ch. 2. History of the landscape in the Itasca Region / H.E. Wright, Jr.
- ch. 3. Climatic and limnologic setting of Elk Lake / Robert O. Megard, J. Pratt Bradbury, and Walter E. Dean
- ch. 4. Chronology of Elk Lake sediments: coring, sampling, and time-series construction / Roger Y. Anderson, J. Pratt Bradbury, Walter E. Dean, and Minze Stuiver
- ch. 5. The varve chronometer in Elk Lake: record of climatic variability and evidence for solar/geomagnetic-14C-climate connection / Roger Y. Anderson
- ch. 6. On the precision of the Elk Lake varve chronology / Donald R. Sprowl
- ch. 7. Modern sedimentation in Elk Lake, Clearwater County, Minnesota / Edward B. Nuhfer, Roger Y. Anderson, J. Pratt Bradbury, and Walter E. Dean
- ch. 8. Environment of deposition of CaCO3 in Elk Lake, Minnesota / Walter E. Dean and Robert O. Megard
- ch. 9. Geochemistry of surface sediments of Minnesota lakes / Walter E. Dean, Eville Gorhan, and Dalway J. Swaine
- ch. 10. Physical properties, mineralogy, and geochemistry of holocene varved sediments from Elk Lake, Minnesota / Walter E. Dean
- ch. 11. Geologic implications of the Elk Lake paleomagnetic record / Donald R. Sprowl and Subir K. Banerjee
- ch. 12. Stable carbon and oxygen isotope studies of the sediments of Elk Lake, Minnesota / Walter E. Dean and Minze Stuiver
- ch. 13. Fossil pigments in holocene varved sediments in Elk Lake, Minnesota / Jon E. Sanger and Ruth J. Hay
- ch. 14. Surface sample analogues of Elk Lake fossil diatom assemblages / Richard B. Brugham
- ch. 15. Holocene diatom paleolimnology of Elk Lake, Minnesota / J. Pratt Bradbury and K.V. Dieterich-Rurup
- ch. 16. Postglacial chrysophycean cyst record from Elk Lake, Minnesota / Barbara A. Zeeb and John P. Smol
- ch. 17. Vegetation history of Elk Lake / Cathy Whitlock, Patrick J. Bartlein, and William A. Watts
- ch. 18. Paleoclimatic interpretation of the Elk Lake pollen record / Patrick J. Bartlein and Cathy Whitlock
- ch. 19. Fire, climate change, and forest processes during the past 2000 years / James S. Clark
- ch. 20. Holocene climatic and limnologic history of the North-Central United States as recorded in the varved sediments of Elk Lake, Minnesota: a synthesis / J. Pratt Bradbury, Walter E. Dean, and Roger Y. Anderson.