Latest Pleistocene alpine glacier advances in the Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho, USA: Reflections of midlatitude moisture transport at the close of the last glaciation

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 225-228

  Thackray, Glenn D ^a   Lundeen, Kari A ^a   Borgert, Jennifer A ^a  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glaciation; Idaho; Late Pleistocene; Paleoclimate; Precipitation; Radiocarbon

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS;

CALIBRATION; ICE; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

GLACIERS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; GLACIER ADVANCE; LAST GLACIATION; MORAINE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIOCARBON DATING;

IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842427962     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20174.1     Document Type: Article

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