Late Pleistocene climate inferred from the reconstruction of the Taylor River glacier complex, southern Sawatch Range, Colorado

Geomorphology

Volumn 75, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 318-329

  Brugger, Keith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado; Equilibrium line altitudes; Glaciation; Pleistocene climate; Sawatch Range

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIATION; GLACIER; ICE FIELD; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MAPPING; PALEOCLIMATE;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645894475     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.07.020     Document Type: Article

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