Eliot Blackwelder and the alpine glaciations of the Sierra Nevada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 338, Issue , 1999, Pages 443-452

  Gillespie, Alan R ^a   Clark, Malcolm M ^b   Burke, Raymond M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Humboldt State University ^*  (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; BIBLIOGRAPHY; GLACIATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; PUBLISHING; SNOW ACCUMULATION;

ALPS; CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952042697     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2338-8.443     Document Type: Article

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