“…The fluctuation histories of the many closed-basin lakes of the Great Basin in western North America have been widely used for climatic reconstructions (e.g., Fritz et al, 2001;Benson et al, 2003;Reinemann et al, 2009) and for the development of climate models that explain those climatic changes (e.g., Hostetler and Bartlein, 1999;Orme, 2008;Lyle et al, 2012;Mensing et al, 2013). However, the Holocene histories of many of these lakes are poorly known, particularly for the early Holocene, limiting the reliability of a number of these reconstructions.…”