Late Pleistocene environments of the western Noatak basin, northwestern Alaska

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 769-789

  Elias, Scott A ^a   Hamilton, Thomas D ^b   Edwards, Mary E ^c   Begét, James E ^c   Krumhardt, Andrea P ^c   Lavoie, Claude ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; OXYGEN; RIVERS;

BOREAL FORESTS; INTERGLACIATION; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LOCAL DOMINANCE; MUTUAL CLIMATIC RANGES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TUNDRA VEGETATION;

DEPOSITS;

FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GLACIAL LAKE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE;

ALASKA; NOATAK BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032862840     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0769:LPEOTW>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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