Lyman P Persico

Biographic Data

ID7726272
NAMELyman P Persico
GIVEN NAMESLyman P
FAMILY NAMEPersico
SIGNATUREPERSICO L P
AFFILIATIONSWhitman College
ORCID0000-0003-1027-3021
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Implications of the loess record for Holocene climate and human settlement in Heye Catchment, Jiuzhaigou, eastern Tibetan Plateau, Sichuan, China

    Open AccessAmanda H Schmidt, Brian D Collins et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2023

    We examine the Holocene loess record in the Heye Catchment on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and China Loess Plateau (CLP) to determine: the region to which the Heye Catchment climate is more similar; temporal change in wind strength; and modification of the loess record by mass wasting and human activity. Luminescence and radiocarbon dating demonstrate loess deposited in two periods: >11–8.6 ka and

  • Climate and Vegetation Change, Hillslope Soil Erosion, and the Complex Nature of Late Quaternary Environmental Transitions, Eastern Mojave Desert, USA

    Open AccessJoseph R McAuliffe, Leslie D McFadden et al.ARTICLEQuaternary2022

    In what are now the warm deserts of the American Southwest, direct effects of changing climate on plant distributions are typically viewed as the principal driver of vegetation changes that followed the late Pleistocene–Holocene transition (LPH). However, at a semi-arid site in the eastern Mojave Desert, the transition to modern, shrub-dominated desert scrub on xeric, south-aspect hillslopes occurred only after the erosion of relatively thick soi…

  • Human resilience and resettlement among the Islands of Four Mountains, Aleutians, Alaska

    Open AccessVirginia Hatfield, Virginia L Hatfield et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2019

    Combined archaeological, ecological, and geologic research on Chuginadak and Carlisle Islands in the Islands of Four Mountains (IFM) probed questions about the sustainability of human settlements over the past 4000 years in the face of geologic, ecological, and social hazards. We use a human ecodynamics approach to frame the investigation and present original archaeological evidence from this poorly known region of the remote Aleutian Islands. Se…

  • Geomorphic processes influence human settlement on two islands in the Islands of Four Mountains, Alaska

    Open AccessLyman Persico, Lyman P Persico et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2019

    The Islands of Four Mountains island group of the Aleutian island arc is remote and difficult to access. Consequently, little fieldwork has focused on geomorphic processes and their relationship to island morphology, climatic change, and human settlement. We investigated glacial, fluvial, and slope processes on the morphologically different Carlisle, Cleveland, and Tana volcanoes. The islands were extensively glaciated at the last glacial maximum…

  • At the Foot of the Smoking Mountains

    Virginia Hatfield, Kale Bruner et al.ARTICLEArctic Anthropology2016Cited by: 1

    An interdisciplinary research team conducted archaeological, geological, and biological investigations in the Islands of the Four Mountains, Alaska during the summer of 2014 as part of a three-year project to study long-term geological and ecological patterns and processes with respect to human settlement. Researchers investigated three archaeological sites on Chuginadak Island (SAM-0014, SAM-0016 and SAM-0047) and two archaeological sites on Car…

  • Rock type and dust influx control accretionary soil development on hillslopes in the Sandia Mountains, New Mexico, USA

    Open AccessLyman P Persico, Leslie D McFadden et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2011

    Lower slopes of the Sandia Mountains are characterized by granitic corestone topography and weathering-limited slopes with thin grusy colluvium and weakly developed soils. In contrast, thick soils with illuvial clay and pedogenic carbonate have developed below aplite outcrops. Aplite is resistant to chemical decomposition, but physically weathers to blocky clasts that enhance surface roughness and erosional resistance of colluvium, promoting accu…

  • Holocene beaver damming, fluvial geomorphology, and climate in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    Open AccessLyman Persico, Lyman P Persico et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2009

    We use beaver-pond deposits and geomorphic characteristics of small streams to assess long-term effects of beavers and climate change on Holocene fluvial activity in northern Yellowstone National Park. Although beaver damming has been considered a viable mechanism for major aggradation of mountain stream valleys, this has not been previously tested with stratigraphic and geochronologic data. Thirty-nine radiocarbon ages on beaver-pond deposits fa…