Wet and stormy weather lashed California coast... 8,200 years ago
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 12:22
in Earth & Climate
An analysis of stalagmite records from White Moon Cave in the Santa Cruz Mountains shows that 8200 years ago the California coast underwent 150 years of exceptionally wet and stormy weather. This is the first high resolution record of how the Holocene cold snap affected the California climate.