Postglacial palaeoenvironments of the upper Bow Valley, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 475-492

  Reasoner, Mel A ^a,b   Huber, Ulrike M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POSTGLACIAL;

CANADA;

EID: 0033106319     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(98)00034-1     Document Type: Article

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