A latest Pliocene age for the earliest and most extensive Cordilleran Ice Sheet in northwestern Canada

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 61, Issue , 2013, Pages 77-84

  Hidy, Alan J ^a   Gosse, John C ^a   Froese, Duane G ^b   Bond, Jeffrey D ^c   Rood, Dylan H ^d,e  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Yukon Geological Survey   (Canada)

^d SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Burial dating; Cordilleran Ice Sheet; Early glaciation; Klondike Goldfields; Plio Pleistocene; Yukon River

Indexed keywords

BURIAL DATING; CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET; EARLY GLACIATION; KLONDIKE GOLDFIELDS; PLIO-PLEISTOCENE;

DEBRIS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GOLD; GRAVEL;

GLACIERS;

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; GLACIATION; GLACIOFLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GRAVEL; HALOCLINE; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; OBLIQUITY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE;

CANADA; KLONDIKE; YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 84871882853     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.11.009     Document Type: Article

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