Stratigraphy and palaeoclimatic significance of Late Quaternary loess-palaeosol sequences of the Last Interglacial-Glacial cycle in central Alaska

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 18-19, 2003, Pages 1947-1986

  Muhs, Daniel R ^a   Ager, Thomas A ^a   Bettis III, E Arthur ^b   McGeehin, John ^a   Been, Josh M ^a   Begét, James E ^c   Pavich, Milan J ^a   Stafford Jr , Thomas W ^d   Stevens, De Anne S P ^e  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d Stafford Research Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^e Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; TRACE ELEMENTS; VEGETATION;

SOIL FORMATION CYCLE;

SOILS;

GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; QUATERNARY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

GOES;

EID: 0041552154     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00167-7     Document Type: Article

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