Evidence for climatic change across the North American Monsoon (NAM) and adjacent
areas is reviewed, drawing on continental and marine records and the application of climate …

The paleohydrologic record of western North America since the last glacial maximum
reveals a wide range of hydroclimatic variability in time and space. To improve the …

A 467-cm core (B94/3) from the Alta Babicora basin in the Chihuahuan Desert, northern
Mexico (29° N, 108° W), documents lake-level and climate changes over the past ca. 65,000 …

The North American monsoon (NAM), an onshore wind shift occurring between July and
September, has evolved in character during the Holocene largely due to changes in …

Pollen and plant macrofossils from eight sedimentary basins on the west slope of the
Colorado Rocky Mountains document fluctuations in upper and lower timberline since the …

Presently stabilized dune systems on the piedmont of eastern Colorado and adjacent High
Plains have been repeatedly re-activated during the past 20,000 years. Radiocarbon and …

The fossil record of continental organisms is an important source of paleoclimatic
information. Extant taxa provide a way to transfer both qualitative and quantitative climatic …

One of the consequences of the development of the theory of vegetational climax has been
to guide the observer's mind forwards. Vegetation is interpreted as a stage on the way to …

Evidence today suggests that by at least 8000 to 8500 BP, Archaic hunter-gatherer
economies were established throughout the North American Southwest. The Early Archaic …

Closed and semiclosed basins along the Mojave River in southern California were occupied
by pluvial lakes during the latest Pleistocene. The chronologies of Harper Lake, Lake Manix …