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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Varve Chronology, Proxy Calibration, and Holocene Climate of Minnesota

Abstract

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Despite the numerous Holocene paleoclimatic records from the North American continent, few existing records from the American Midwest have adequate chronological controls, marking it problematic to link regional climatic changes to possible larger-scale forcing. With solid 14C chronologies, the multi-proxy records from SL and WOL revealed (1) that the abrupt transition from the early- to mid-Holocene postdated the 8.2 ka event at the 95% confidence level of 14C dates, (2) that the two mid-Holocene climatic stages likely resulted from a regional reconfiguration of air masses, and (3) that millennial-scale climatic cycles did not occur in the midwestem United States.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Geology
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Jian, Tian
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Hu, Feng Sheng
  • Anderson, Thomas F.

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI3182399
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86530

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www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh
Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Jian, Tian. Varve Chronology, Proxy Calibration, and Holocene Climate of Minnesota. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/86530