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Paleoclimatic Significance of Late Quaternary Lacustrine and Alluvial Stratigraphy, Animas Valley, New Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

P.Reed Krider
P.Reed Krider*
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721
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Abstract

Lacustrine and alluvial stratigraphic sequences in the southern Animas Valley of New Mexico allow reconstruction of late Quaternary climates. Four separate stands of late Quaternary Lake Cloverdale in the southern Animas Valley are recorded by lacustrine shoreline deposits. Soils and stratigraphic evidence show that three young lake highstands occurred during the Holocene and that a higher lake stand occurred 18,000 to 20,00014C yr B.P. Fluvial systems aggraded the southern Animas Valley during the middle to late Holocene. The late Quaternary stratigraphy shows that several periods during the late Holocene were characterized by higher effective precipitation than at any time since the last glacial maximum.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , November 1998 , pp. 283 - 289
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University of Washington

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