The full-glacial environment of the northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska, reconstructed from the 21,500-year-old Kitluk Paleosol

Quaternary Research

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 143-153

  Höfle, Claudia ^a   Edwards, Mary E ^a   Hopkins, David M ^a   Mann, Daniel H ^a   Ping, Chien Lu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Land Bridge; Beringia; Last glacial maximum; Paleoenvironmental reconstruction; Paleosols; Permafrost soils

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL HISTORY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PERMAFROST; RECONSTRUCTION;

ALASKA; SEWARD PENINSULA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0343133904     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1999.2097     Document Type: Article

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