Glacier fluctuations during the past millennium in Garibaldi Provincial Park, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1215-1233

  Koch, Johannes ^a   Clague, John J ^a   Osborn, Gerald D ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; LANDFORMS; SOLAR RADIATION;

GLOBAL FORCING; MORAINES; SOLAR IRRADIANCE; TEMPERATURE SERIES;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GLACIER; LICHENOMETRY; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORAINE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

COAST MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 36048958458     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E07-019     Document Type: Article

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