Drought drove forest decline and dune building in eastern upper Michigan, USA, as the upper Great Lakes became closed basins

Current models of landscape response to Holocene climate change in midcontinent North America largely reconcile Earth orbital and atmospheric climate forcing with pollen-based forest histories on the east and eolian chronologies in Great Plains grasslands on the west. However, thousands of sand dune...

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Published in:	Geology (Boulder) 2012-04, Vol.40 (4), p.315-318
Main Authors:	Loope, Walter L, Loope, Henry M, Goble, Ronald J, Fisher, Timothy G, Lytle, David E, Legg, Robert J, Wysocki, Douglas A, Hanson, Paul R, Young, Aaron R
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	arid environment biostratigraphy Cenozoic Climate change closed systems Drought dunes Forests framework silicates geochronology Geology geomorphology Great Lakes Great Lakes region Holocene landform evolution landscapes Luce County Michigan Mackinac County Michigan Michigan Michigan Upper Peninsula microfossils miospores North America optically stimulated luminescence paleoclimatology palynomorphs Pollen quartz Quaternary Quaternary geology relative age Schoolcraft County Michigan sedimentation silica minerals silicates terrestrial environment transport United States vegetation wind transport
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