A 1500-year record of temperature and glacial response inferred from varved Iceberg Lake, southcentral Alaska

Quaternary Research

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 12-24

  Loso, Michael G ^a   Anderson, Robert S ^a   Anderson, Suzanne P ^a   Reimer, Paula J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Arctic climate; Climatic history; Glacial lakes; Glacial sediments; Glaciation fluctuations; Little Ice Age; Medieval Warm Period; Stratigraphy; Varves

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; DEPOSITION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIATION; GLACIER; ICE THICKNESS; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STRATIGRAPHY;

ALASKA; ICEBERG LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745127026     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2005.11.007     Document Type: Article

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