Post-glacial relative sea level, isostasy, and glacial history in Icy Strait, Southeast Alaska, USA

Quaternary Research

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 201-216

  Mann, Daniel H ^a   Streveler, Gregory P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b Icy Strait Environmental Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Glacial history; Glacial isostasy; Glacier Bay; Holocene; Icy Strait; Late Pleistocene; Neoglaciation; North Pacific; Relative sea level; Southeast Alaska

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; FJORD; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIOISOSTASY; LITTLE ICE AGE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; UPLIFT;

ALASKA; ALEXANDER ARCHIPELAGO; ICY STRAIT; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 40949090478     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2007.12.005     Document Type: Article

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