Limits of successive middle and late pleistocene continental ice sheets, interior plains of southern and central alberta and adjacent areas

Developments in Quaternary Science

Volumn 15, Issue , 2011, Pages 575-589

  Jackson, Lionel E ^a   Andriashek, Laurence D ^b   Phillips, Fred M ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Canada)

^c NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic dating; Glacial stratigraphy; Ice free corridor; Illinoian glaciation; Laurentide ice sheet

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959843141     PISSN: 15710866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53447-7.00045-3     Document Type: Book

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