Luminescence dating of mid- to Late Wisconsinan aeolian sand as a constraint on the last advance of the Laurentide Ice Sheet across the Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western Arctic Canada

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 857-869

  Murton, Julian B ^a   Frechen, Manfred ^b   Maddy, Darrel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY;

GLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; RADIOCARBON DATING;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

GLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; LUMINESCENCE DATING; STRATIGRAPHY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; WISCONSINAN;

CANADA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LIVERPOOL BAY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; TUKTOYAKTUK; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34848831801     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E07-015     Document Type: Article

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