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Is There Any Evidence of Mega-Lake Manly in the Eastern Mojave Desert during Oxygen Isotope Stage 5e/6? A Comment on Hooke, R. L. (1999). Lake Manly(?) Shorelines in the Eastern Mojave Desert, California, Quaternary Research52, 328–336

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Yehouda Enzel ,
Jeffrey R. Knott ,
Kirk Anderson ,
Diana E. Anderson  and
Stephen G. Wells
Yehouda Enzel
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel, E-mail: yenzel@vms.huji.ac.il
Jeffrey R. Knott
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, California State University, Fullerton, P.O. Box 6850, Fullerton, California, 92834-6850
Kirk Anderson
Affiliation:
Bilby Research Center, Northern Arizona University, P.O. Box 6013, Flagstaff, Arizona, 86011
Diana E. Anderson
Affiliation:
Center for Environmental Science and Education and the Quaternary Sciences Program, Northern Arizona University, P.O. Box 5694, Flagstaff, Arizona, 86011
Stephen G. Wells
Affiliation:
Desert Research Institute, 2215 Raggio Parkway, Reno, Nevada, 89512
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Quaternary Research , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 173 - 176
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