Lake-size variations in the Lahontan and Bonneville basins

Benson, L., Currey, D., Yong Lao and Hostetler, S., 1992. Lake-size variations in the Lahontan and Bonneville basins between 13,000 and 9000 14C yr B.P.. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 95: 19-32. Recessions of Lakes Lahontan and Bonneville that commenced ~ 13,500 ~4C yr B.P. were interrupted at i> 11,500 14C yr B.P. in the Lahontan basin and ~ 12,200 14C yr B.P. in the Bonneville basin by relatively large perturbations in lake level that persisted for ~ 2000 years. Minor glacial readvances in the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains of California-Nevada occurred during the latter half of this interval (between I 1,000 and 9700 14C yr B.P.). The hydrologic response of Lakes Lahontan and Bonneville and the mountain glacial advances were concurrent with the Allerod/Younger Dryas climatic intervals recorded in vegetational and glacial records of western and central Europe.