A soil chronosequence in Late Glacial and Neoglacial moraines, Humboldt Glacier, northwestern Venezuelan Andes

Geomorphology

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 236-245

  Mahaney, W C ^a,b   Kalm, V ^c   Kapran, B ^a,b   Milner, M W ^a,b   Hancock, R G V ^d  

^a Quaternary Surveys   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Humboldt Massif foreland; Late Glacial; Late Pleistocene Holocene soil chronosequence; Little Ice Age; Neoglacial

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSEQUENCE; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; LEACHING; LITTLE ICE AGE; NEOGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SOIL PROPERTY; WATER LEVEL;

CANADA; HUMBOLDT; NORTH AMERICA; SASKATCHEWAN;

EID: 67349104398     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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