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Holocene Climate Variation and Drought in the Great Basin: impacts on Past, Present, and Future Vegetation
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About The Presenter
Robin J. Tausch, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
About This Presentation
Running time: 17 minutes and 20 seconds.
Given: February 22, 2007, at the Forest Service Intermountain
Regional Integrated Resource Workshop, Ogden, UT.
Production by: M.J. Furniss and J. Guntle, Communications and Applications, PNW and PSW Research Stations
Topics covered:
- Holocene Climate Variation and Drought
- Hocene CO2 and Temperature Variation
- Holocene Great Basin Lakes
- Modern Intact Woodrat Midden
- Exposed Fossil Midden
- Large Midden, Clan Alpine Mountains.
- Recent and Older Midden Samples
- Sieving Dissolved Midden Sample
- Sorting Midden Plant Materials
- Toiyabe Mountains. Midden Area
- Topographic Map of Midden Sites
- Big Creek Midden Site
- Upper Birch Creek Midden Site
- Macrofossil Taxa at Each Location
- Cluster Dendrogram Midden Samples
- Mid-Holocene Dry Periods
- Tree Trunk in Lake Tahoe
- Mid-Holocene Wet Period
- Sampling a Toiyabe Mountains. Meadow
- Core Sampling for Pollen
- Neoglacial Wet Period
- Slope Stability, Soil Formation
- Post-Neoglacial Drought
- Slope Instability and Deposition
- Deposited Alluvial Fan
- Medieval Warm Period
- Little Ice Age
- Post-Little Ice Age Variation
- Post-Little Ice Age Erosion
- Head Cut 1994
- Head Cut 1998
- Incised Meadow 2002
- Total Taxa by C14 Age
- Elevation Limits of Key Plant Species
- Macrofossil Taxa by Plant Form
- Drought Monitor Example Map