Global Climate Change - References for Climate Change in the Sierras

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Birkeland, P.W. and Janda, R.J., 1971; Clay mineralogy of soils developed from Quaternary deposits of the eastern Sierra Nevada, California; Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 82, p. 2495-2513

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Burke, R.M., and Birkeland, P.W., 1979; Reevaluation of multiparameter relative dating techniques and their application to the glacial sequence along the eastern escarpment of the Sierra Nevada, California; Quaternary Research, v. 11, p. 21-51.

Burkins, D.L., Blum, J.D., Brown, K., Reynolds, R.C., and Erel, Y., 1999; Chemistry and mineralogy of a granitic, glacial soil chronosequence, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California; Chemical Geology, v. 162, p. 1-14 [Burkins et al, 1999.pdf]

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Bursik, M.I., and Gillespie, A. R., 1993; Late Pleistocene glaciation of Mono Basin, California; Quaternary Research, v. 39, p. 24-35 [Bursik & Gillespie, 1993.pdf]

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Cleveland, G., 1962; Geology of the Little Antelope Valley clay deposits, Mono County, California; California Division of Mines and Geology, Special Report 72 (1962), 28p., Plate 1 [Cleveland 1962.jpg], Plate 2 [Cleveland, 1962_Sheet 2.pdf]

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Dalrymple, G.B., 1964; Potassium-argon dates of three Pleistocene interglacial basalt flows from the Sierra Nevada, California; G.S.A. Bulletin, v. 75, p. 753-758

Dalrymple, G.B., 1967; Potassium-argon ages of recent rhyolites of the Mono and Inyo Craters, California; Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 3, p. 289-298

Dalrymple, G.B., Burke, R.M., and Birkeland, P.W., 1982; Concerning K-Ar dating of a basalt flow from the Tahoe-Tioga interglaciation, Sawmill Canyon, southeastern Sierra Nevada, California; Quaternary Research, v. 17, p. 120-22

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Gath, E.M., 1984; An Overview of Glacial Chronology for the Mammoth Lakes Region, Eastern Sierra Nevada, California; Geology of the Long Valley, Mono Craters, and Mammoth Lakes Area, South Coast Geological Society, Inc. Annual Field Trip Guidebook # 12, p. 54-60, 1984

Geologic Guidebook to the Long Valley-Mono Craters Region of Eastern California (1976); Lipshe, S.R., Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles; GSUCLA Field Guide No. 5, Fall 1976 field trip of the Geological Society of UCLA, p. 73-84, 182, 183.

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