Potential of vertebrate studies for assessing past climate variations

Conference · Sat Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:60986

Livingston, S D ^[1]

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1. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV (United States)

Vertebrate remains are commonly recovered in the course of archaeological and paleontological investigations. They are routinely used as a source of data from which to reconstruct subsistence practices and environmental factors perceived as important to past people. But this source of information has not been recognized as relevant to estimation of late Quaternary climate changes in the Great Basin until recently. In this paper I summarize three ways that environmental information is encoded in prehistoric vertebrate assemblages and provide examples of evidence that vertebrates do reflect changes of interest for climatic studies.

• Research Organization: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), New York, NY (United States); American Nuclear Society (ANS), La Grange Park, IL (United States)
• OSTI ID: 60986
• Report Number(s): CONF-940553-Vol.4; TRN: 94:010821-0096
• Resource Relation: Conference: International high-level radioactive waste management conference, Las Vegas, NV (United States), 22-26 May 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of High Level Radioactive Waste Management: Proceedings of the fifth annual international conference. Volume 4; PB: 1048 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
56 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
APPLIED STUDIES
VERTEBRATES
BIOLOGICAL EXTINCTION
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
CLIMATIC CHANGE
BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS
PALEOCLIMATOLOGY
YUCCA MOUNTAIN
SITE CHARACTERIZATION
FOSSILS
PLEISTOCENE EPOCH
Yucca Mountain Project