Timing of the last glaciation and subsequent deglaciation in the Ruby Mountains, Great Basin, USA

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 361, Issue , 2013, Pages 16-25

  Laabs, Benjamin J C ^a   Munroe, Jeffrey S ^b   Best, Laura C ^a   Caffee, Marc W ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic surface exposure dating; Great Basin; Mountain glaciation; Nevada; Ruby Mountains

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; DEGLACIATIONS; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GLACIAL INTERGLACIAL TRANSITION; GREAT BASIN; LAST GLACIAL; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MOUNTAIN GLACIATION; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; NEVADA; PLEISTOCENE; SIERRA NEVADA; TERMINAL MORAINES; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADIOISOTOPES; RUBY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DEGLACIATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LAST GLACIATION; MORAINE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOMETRIC METHOD;

GREAT BASIN; NEVADA; RUBY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870789631     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.11.018     Document Type: Article

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