QUANTITATIVE PALEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTIONS FROM LATE PLEISTOCENE PLANT MACROFOSSILS OF THE YUCCA MOUNTAIN REGION

by Robert S. Thompson¹, Katherine H. Anderson², and Patrick J. Bartlein³

Open-File Report 99-338

1999

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¹Denver, Colorado
²Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
³Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

CONTENTS

• Introduction
  
• Methods
  
• Analogue-Based Paleoclimatic Reconstructions
  
  • Reconstruction of Late Pleistocene Climates
    
  • Evaluation of Climatic Anomalies for the LGM
    
• Primary Conclusions
  
• References
  

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