Dynamic response of desert wetlands to abrupt climate change

Springer, Kathleen B.; Manker, Craig R.; Pigati, Jeffrey S.; Mahan, Shannon A.

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.173

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“…Growing interest and concern in the regional history of water on the landscape, or paleohydrology, have led to discoveries of complex modern hypogean ecosystems and fossil remnants of past hypogean activity (Quade et al, 1998;Hancock et al, 2005;Forester et al, 2005a;Humphreys, 2009;Pigati et al, 2014;Springer et al, 2015). Regional paleohydrology is accessible through geologic and paleontologic records, especially by the study of the microfossils of paleohydrologic deposits (Forester, 1991;Quade et al, 2003;Jayko et al, 2008;Pigati et al, 2011).…”

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“…The general age range of the samples included in this study extends from about 140 to 9 ka, and includes Unit B (*140 ka? *Penultimate Glacial Stage, *MIS-Stage 6); Unit D (25-19 ka *Last Glacial Maximum); Unit E 1 (18-15 ka *Post-Glacial); and Unit E 2 (13-9 ka *Late Glacial -early Holocene) (Haynes, 1967;Bell et al, 1998Bell et al, , 2009Quade et al, 1998Quade et al, , 2003Springer et al, 2015). We systematically examined ostracodes in over thirty samples.…”

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Aquifer and surface-water ostracodes in Quaternary paleowetland deposits of southern Nevada, USA

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A diverse assemblage of Late Quaternary continental ostracodes (Class Crustacea) belonging to at least 15 genera and 40 species (including 11 new species and one new genus, Plicocandona, described here) was found in sediments of former groundwater discharge deposits located in valleys of southern Nevada, U.S.A. The fossiliferous deposits are located in Las Vegas, Coyote Springs, Indian Springs, Sandy, and Pahrump Valleys. The ostracodes include species that were probably living in wetmeadow, seep, flowing-spring, stream, and wetland environments, and include aquifer species. Those environments indicate a higher level of effective moisture than occurs today during several episodes of the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene, from *140 to *9 ka. The ostracode assemblages are significant to our understanding of regional paleohydrology and also contribute to the growing knowledge of aquifer taxa diversity and biogeography.

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