A 1000-yr record of forest fire activity from Eclipse Icefield, Yukon, Canada

Holocene

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 200-209

  Yalcin, Kaplan ^a,c   Wake, Cameron P ^a   Kreutz, Karl J ^b   Whitlow, Sallie I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

'Mediaeval Warm Period'; Alaska; Canada; Fire history; Forest fires; Ice cores; Late Holocene; Yukon

Indexed keywords

FIRE HISTORY; FOREST FIRE; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; METHANE; PALEOECOLOGY;

CANADA; ECLIPSE ICEFIELD; NORTH AMERICA; YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 33645402775     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683606hl920rp     Document Type: Article

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