Late Pleistocene coastal paleogeography of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada, and its implications for terrestrial biogeography and early postglacial human occupation

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1755-1766

  Hetherington, Renée ^a   Barrie, J Vaughn ^b   Reid, Robert G B ^a   Macleod, Roger ^b   Smith, Dan J ^a   James, Thomas S ^b   Kung, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOGEOGRAPHY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

COASTAL EVOLUTION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS;

EID: 1542347722     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e03-071     Document Type: Article

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