Expansion of outlet glaciers of the Juneau icefield in northwest British Columbia during the past two millennia

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 447-461

  Clague, John J ^a   Koch, Johannes ^b   Geertsema, Marten ^c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b The College of Wooster   (Canada)

^c British Columbia Forest Service   (Canada)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; British Columbia; Climate change; Coast Mountains; Llewellyn Glacier; Tulsequah Glacier

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; HOLOCENE; ICE FIELD; RADIOCARBON DATING; VALLEY GLACIER;

ALASKA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; JUNEAU ICEFIELD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951293102     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609353433     Document Type: Article

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