Fluvial terrace formation along Wyoming's Laramie Range as a response to increased late Pleistocene flood magnitudes

Geomorphology

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 12-25

  Hanson, Paul R ^a   Mason, Joseph A ^b   Goble, Ronald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluvial features; Geochronology; Laramie mountains; Terraces

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FILL; FLOODING; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INTERGLACIAL; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; PLEISTOCENE; TERRACE;

LARAMIE; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 33646498113     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.08.010     Document Type: Article

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