The Rhone Glacier was smaller than today for most of the Holocene

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 679-682

  Goehring, Brent M ^a,e   Schaefer, Joerg M ^a   Schluechter, Christian ^b   Lifton, Nathaniel A ^c,f   Finkel, Robert C ^d   Jull, A J Timothy ^c   Akçar, Naki ^b   Alley, Richard B ^e  

^a Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HOLOCENES; IN-SITU; LIMITED DATA; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; NEW ZEALAND; PROGLACIAL; SCANDINAVIA; SWITZERLAND;

CHRONOMETERS; CLIMATE CHANGE;

GLACIERS;

ABRASION; BEDROCK; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; ICE RETREAT; MOUNTAIN REGION; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; RHONE GLACIER;

EID: 79960038837     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32145.1     Document Type: Article

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