'Little Ice Age' proxy glacier mass balance records reconstructed from tree rings in the Mt Waddington area, British Columbia Coast Mountains, Canada

Holocene

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 748-757

  Larocque, Sonya J ^a   Smith, Dan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; British Columbia Coast Mountains; Canada; Dendrochronology; Dendroglaciology; Glacier mass balance modelling; Tree ring analysis

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; LITTLE ICE AGE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 22544461057     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683605hl848rp     Document Type: Article

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