Testing northwest drainage from Lake Agassiz using extant ice margin and strandline data

Quaternary International

Volumn 260, Issue , 2012, Pages 106-114

  Fisher, Timothy G ^a   Lowell, Thomas V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; DRAINAGE; GLACIAL LAKE; ICE MARGIN; ICE SHEET; STRANDLINE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

EID: 84860246726     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.09.018     Document Type: Article

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