Chronology of latest Pleistocene mountain glaciation in the western Wasatch Mountains, Utah, U.S.A.

Quaternary Research

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 272-284

  Laabs, Benjamin J C ^a   Marchetti, David W ^b   Munroe, Jeffrey S ^c   Refsnider, Kurt A ^d   Gosse, John C ^e   Lips, Elliott W ^f   Becker, Richard A ^g   Mickelson, David M ^g   Singer, Brad S ^g  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WESTERN STATE COLORADO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic exposure dating; Great Basin; Lake Bonneville; Mountain glaciation; Wasatch Mountains

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC; COSMOGENIC EXPOSURE; DEGLACIATIONS; EXPOSURE AGE; GLACIAL CHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GREAT BASIN; MOUNTAIN GLACIATION; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PLEISTOCENE; RELATIVE TIMING; TERMINAL MORAINES; WASATCH MOUNTAINS; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITS; GLACIERS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; STRATIGRAPHY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATING METHOD; DEGLACIATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; MOUNTAIN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; STRATIGRAPHY;

GREAT SALT LAKE; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; UTAH; WASATCH RANGE;

POPULUS;

EID: 80051805237     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.06.016     Document Type: Article

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