Questioning the age of the Moorhead Phase in the glacial Lake Agassiz basin

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 21-22, 2006, Pages 2688-2691

  Fisher, Timothy G ^a   Lowell, Thomas V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; PEAT; SAND; STRATIGRAPHY;

LAKE AGASSIZ BASIN; RADIOCARBON DATES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CROSS-BEDDING; DATING METHOD; GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ; ORGANIC MATTER; PLEISTOCENE; SAND; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 33751347585     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.05.007     Document Type: Article

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