Chronology of Pleistocene glacial advances in the central Rocky Mountains

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1443-1452

  Chadwick, Oliver A ^a   Hall, Robert D ^b   Phillips, Fred M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; ISOTOPES; LAKES; LANDFORMS; RIVERS;

COSMOGENIC DATING; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDE CHRONOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL PROFILE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARKS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; OUTWASH; PLEISTOCENE; RIVER TERRACE; CHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL ADVANCE;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WIND RIVER; WYOMING; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK; USA; WIND RIVER VALLEY;

EID: 0031448549     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<1443:COPGAI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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