Latest Pleistocene glacial chronology of the Uinta Mountains: support for moisture-driven asynchrony of the last deglaciation

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 13-14, 2009, Pages 1171-1187

  Laabs, Benjamin J C ^a   Refsnider, Kurt A ^b   Munroe, Jeffrey S ^c   Mickelson, David M ^b   Applegate, Patrick J ^d   Singer, Brad S ^b   Caffee, Marc W ^e  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONY; DEGLACIATION; EXPOSURE AGES; GLACIAL CHRONOLOGIES; GLACIAL VALLEYS; MASS BALANCES; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL; PRECIPITATION CONTROLS; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; TERMINAL MORAINES; TWO LINES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; LAKES; TIME MEASUREMENT;

LANDFORMS;

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE EFFECT; ICE RETREAT; LAST DEGLACIATION; MASS BALANCE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PLEISTOCENE; REGRESSION;

LAKE BONNEVILLE; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UINTA MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 67349134185     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.12.012     Document Type: Article

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