Figure 27


 

Antelope Hills Exposure #1, Section 33-17N-25W, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. The same sequence as at Brokenleg Bend #3, but much more clearly expressed. Note the diffuse lower boundary and abrupt upper boundary of each soil. These suggest that rainfall and vegetal biomass gradually increased through each of the four recorded pluvials, as during the modern one (Figure 28 on this website), and that each pluvial terminated in a drought of a severity that has not been experienced on the Southern Plains during the post-1892 Historic period.

 

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