A late-Middle Pleistocene (Marine Isotope Stage 6) vegetated surface buried by Old Crow tephra at the Palisades, interior Alaska

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 801-811

  Reyes, Alberto V ^a   Jensen, Britta J L ^a   Zazula, Grant D ^b   Ager, Thomas A ^c   Kuzmina, Svetlana ^a   La Farge, Catherine ^a   Froese, Duane G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Government of Yukon   (Canada)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; AQUATIC HABITATS; FISSION TRACK AGES; INTERGLACIATION; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MACROFOSSILS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; PALEOECOLOGY; PERMAFROST DEGRADATION; PLEISTOCENE; POLLEN COUNTS; STRATIGRAPHIC MARKERS; THAW SLUMPING; TRACE AMOUNTS; TUNDRA VEGETATION; VASCULAR PLANT;

DEPOSITS; ISOTOPES; STRATIGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

LANDFORMS;

AUTOCHTHON; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HERB; INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOECOLOGY; PERMAFROST; PLEISTOCENE; SILT; SLUMPING; TEPHRA; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES; YUKON RIVER;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; HEXAPODA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 76649103362     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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