Surface-exposure ages of Front Range moraines that may have formed during the Younger Dryas, 8.2 cal ka, and Little Ice Age events

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 1638-1649

  Benson, Larry ^a   Madole, Richard ^b   Kubik, Peter ^c   McDonald, Richard ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; RADIOISOTOPES; SOLIDIFICATION; SURFACES;

ANGULAR BOULDERS; LICHENOMETRIC DATING; SURFACE-EXPOSURE AGES;

ROCKS;

AGE DETERMINATION; BEDROCK; BOULDER; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATABASE; FLOOD DEPOSIT; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ; GLACIAL TRANSPORT; GLACIATION; ICE CORE; INTERGLACIAL; LICHENOMETRY; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORAINE; RADIOCARBON DATING; YOUNGER DRYAS;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; GULCH GLACIER; ISABELLE GLACIER; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250176182     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.02.015     Document Type: Article

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