Holocene vegetation and climate in the Puerto Blanco Mountains, southwestern Arizona
Arizona ; Domaine aride ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie de l'Amérique ; Histoire de la végétation ; Holocène ; Moyenne montagne ; Paléobiogéographie ; Puerto Blanco Mountains ; Quaternaire zone chaude ; Variation climatique ; Zone subtropicale
Plant macrofossils from 21 pack rat (Neotoma sp.) middens at 535-605 m from the Puerto Blanco Mountains provide an excellent history of vegetation and climate for the last 14,120 yr B.P. in the Sonoran Desert. The inferences of a latest Wisconsin