Eastern Beringia and beyond: Late Wisconsinan and Holocene landscape dynamics along the Yukon Coastal Plain, Canada

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 319-320, Issue , 2012, Pages 28-45

  Fritz, Michael ^a   Wetterich, Sebastian ^a   Schirrmeister, Lutz ^a   Meyer, Hanno ^a   Lantuit, Hugues ^a   Preusser, Frank ^b   Pollard, Wayne H ^c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beringia; Ground ice; Herschel Island; Laurentide Ice Sheet; Permafrost; Stable water isotopes

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; ACCUMULATION; COASTAL PLAIN; CRYOSPHERE; DEGLACIATION; DETRITUS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GLACIOEUSTACY; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; HYDROCHEMISTRY; ICE FREE CORRIDOR; ICE MARGIN; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LATE GLACIAL; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MORAINE; ORGANIC MATTER; OSTRACOD; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; THAWING; THERMOKARST; THRUST; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UNCONFORMITY; WISCONSINAN;

CANADA; YUKON TERRITORY;

OSTRACODA;

EID: 84857030333     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.12.015     Document Type: Article

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