Landform assemblages produced by the Laurentide Ice Sheet in northeastern British Columbia and adjacent Northwest Territories - Constraints on glacial lakes and patterns of ice retreat

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 593-610

  Bednarski, Jan M ^a  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; DRAINAGE; FLOW PATTERNS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; LANDFORMS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA (CO); DEGLACIATION; FRANKLIN (CO); GLACIAL LAKES; ICE COVER; ICE FLOW; ICE MASSES; ICE SHEETS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM (LGM); LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET (LIS); LOCAL VARIATIONS; RADIOCARBON AGES;

ICE;

CHRONOLOGY; CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET; DEGLACIATION; GLACIAL LAKE; ICE FLOW; LANDFORM; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAST GLACIATION; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; MOUNTAIN; RADIOCARBON DATING; TOPOGRAPHY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; CANADIAN CORDILLERA; FRANKLIN MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 46749155098     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E07-053     Document Type: Article

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