200,000 years of climate change recorded in eolian sediments of the High Plains of eastern Colorado and western Nebraska
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Published:January 01, 1999
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Daniel R. Muhs, James B. Swinehart, David B. Loope, John N. Aleinikoff, Josh Been, 1999. "200,000 years of climate change recorded in eolian sediments of the High Plains of eastern Colorado and western Nebraska", Colorado and Adjacent Areas, David R. Lageson, Alan P. Lester, Bruce D. Trudgill
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Abstract
Loess and eolian sand cover vast areas of the western Great Plains of Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado (Fig. 1). In recent studies of Quaternary climate change, there has been a renewed interest in loess and eolian sand. Much of the attention now given to loess stems from new studies of long loess sequences that contain detailed records of Quaternary glacial-interglacial cycles, thought to be a terrestrial equivalent to the foraminiferal oxygen isotope record in deep-sea sediments (Fig. 2). Loess is also a direct record of atmospheric circulation, and identification of loess paleowinds in the geologic record can test atmospheric...
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Colorado and Adjacent Areas

This first volume in the series includes trips held in conjunction with the 1999 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, with more than 12 GSA-sponsored field trip guides presented in one volume. This year, the GSA Field Guide exposes readers to the beauty and diversity of the Colorado region, including trips focusing on sedimentology, hydrogeology, coal areas, tectonics, and other disciplines.