Late Pleistocene and Holocene glaciation of the Fish Lake valley, northeastern Alaska Range, Alaska

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 677-689

  Young, Nicolás E ^a   Briner, Jason P ^a   Kaufman, Darrell S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska Range; Cosmogenic exposure dating; Holocene glaciation; Lichenometry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIATION; GLACIER ADVANCE; LICHENOMETRY; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORAINE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; VALLEY GLACIER; WISCONSINAN;

ALASKA; ALASKA RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350157128     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1279     Document Type: Article

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