Faunal analysis of late Pleistocene-early Holocene invertebrates provides evidence for paleoenvironments of a Gulf of Alaska shoreline inland of the present Bering Glacier margin

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 462, Issue , 2010, Pages 251-274

  Pasch, Anne D ^a   Foster, Nora R ^b   Irvine, Gail V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^b NRF Taxonomic Services   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MOLLUSCS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; SEDIMENTS; SILT;

GLACIAL CHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSITIONS; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MARINE INVERTEBRATES; PALEOENVIRONMENTS; RADIOCARBON DATES; SEAFLOOR SEDIMENTS;

ICE;

CHRONOLOGY; DEPOSITION; FAUNA; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; MELTWATER; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ALASKA; BERING GLACIER; GULF OF ALASKA; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

BIVALVIA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 78650919053     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2462(13)     Document Type: Article

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