Evolution of the Moose Lake Delta, British Columbia: Implications for Holocene environmental change in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Geomorphology

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 75-93

  Dirszowsky, R W ^a   Desloges, J R ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian Rockies; Climatic change; Delta; Floodplain; Holocene; Provenance; Sediment yield

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DELTA; FLOODPLAIN; HOLOCENE; PALEOCHANNEL; PROGRADATION; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT YIELD;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0347092051     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(03)00084-9     Document Type: Article

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