Stratigraphy, optical dating chronology (IRSL) and depositional model of pre-LGM glacial deposits in the Hope Valley, New Zealand

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 576-592

  Rother, Henrik ^a   Shulmeister, James ^b   Rieser, Uwe ^c  

^a SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL SEDIMENTS; DEPOSITIONAL MODELS; FLUVIAL GRAVELS; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GLACIAL RE-ADVANCE; GLACIAL RETREAT; GLACIAL VALLEYS; IN-SITU; LAST GLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LITHOFACIES; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MASS FLOW; NEW ZEALAND; OPTICAL DATING; PLEISTOCENE; PROGLACIAL; PROGLACIAL LAKES; SEDIMENTARY VALLEY; SOUTH ISLAND , NEW ZEALAND; STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; DEPOSITS; GLACIERS; ICE; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; GLACIER RETREAT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LITHOFACIES; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRATIGRAPHY; TILL; VALLEY FILL;

NEW ZEALAND;

POPULUS;

EID: 74549209676     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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