Clinker geochronology, the first glacial maximum, and landscape evolution in the northern Rockies

GSA Today

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4-9

  Reiners, Peter W ^a   Riihimaki, Catherine A ^b   Heffern, Edward L ^c  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b DREW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; URANIUM SERIES DATING; ZIRCON;

POWDER BASIN; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 79959973593     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G107A.1     Document Type: Article

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