Glacier fluctuations in the southern Peruvian Andes during the late-glacial period, constrained with cosmogenic 3He

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-43

  Bromley, Gordon R M ^a   Hall, Brenda L ^a   Schaefer, Joerg M ^b   Winckler, Gisela ^b   Todd, Claire E ^c   Rademaker, Kurt M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic helium 3; Glaciers; Last termination; Late glacial reversal; Tropics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIER DYNAMICS; HELIUM ISOTOPE; ICE MARGIN; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MORAINE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ANDES; PERU;

EID: 78751559496     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1424     Document Type: Article

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