Retreat of a tidewater margin of the Laurentide ice sheet in eastern coastal Maine between ca. 14 000 and 13 000 14C yr B.P.

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 620-632

  Kaplan, Michael R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTS; TOPOGRAPHY;

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; COLD ENVIRONMENT; DESTABILIZING INFLUENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GLACIAL MELTWATER; GLACIOMARINE SEDIMENT; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; TOPOGRAPHIC CONTROL;

ICE;

GLACIER RETREAT; ICE MARGIN; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; PLEISTOCENE; TIDEWATER GLACIER;

MAINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032766896     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0620:ROATMO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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