Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Wet and stormy weather lashed California coast... 8,200 years ago

06/27/2017 03:32 PM EDT

dated quarter section of the White Moon Cave stalagmite

An analysis of stalagmite records from White Moon Cave in the Santa Cruz Mountains shows that 8200 years ago the California coast underwent 150 years of exceptionally wet and stormy weather. This is the first high resolution record of how the Holocene cold snap affected the California climate.


Full story at https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/06/20/wet-and-stormy-weather-lashed-california-coast8200-years-ago/

Source
Vanderbilt University


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