Wildfire and abrupt ecosystem disruption on California’s Northern Channel Islands at the Ållerød–Younger Dryas boundary (13.0–12.9 ka)
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D.J. Kennett , J.P. Kennett , G.J. West , J.M. Erlandson , J.R. Johnson , I.L. Hendy , A. West g , B.J. Culleton , T.L. Jones , Thomas W. Stafford, Jr. i a Department of Anthropology, 1218 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA b Department of Earth Science, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA c Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA d Department of Anthropology, Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA e Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA f Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA g GeoScience Consulting, Dewey, AZ 86327, USA h Department of Social Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, USA i Stafford Research Laboratories, Inc., 200 Acadia Avenue, Lafayette, CO 80026, USA
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