Deglaciation pattern during the Lateglacial/Holocene transition in the southern French Alps. Chronological data and geographical reconstruction from the Clarée Valley (upper Durance catchment, southeastern France)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 315-316, Issue , 2012, Pages 109-123

  Cossart, Etienne ^a,b   Fort, Monique ^b,c   Bourlès, Didier ^b   Braucher, Régis ^b   Perrier, Romain ^b,c   Siame, Lionel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic 10Be; French Alps; Glaciers; Holocene; Last Glacial Maximum; Late Glacial

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DEGLACIATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MORAINE; RECONSTRUCTION;

ALPS; AUSTRALIA; CLARE VALLEY; FRANCE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84855789349     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.11.017     Document Type: Article

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