New investigations of Pleistocene glacial and pluvial records in northeastern Nevada

GSA Field Guides

Volumn 21, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-25

  Munroe, Jeffrey S ^a   Laabs, Benjamin J C ^b  

^a MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; RUBY;

GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GLACIAL INTERGLACIAL TRANSITION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATEST PLEISTOCENE; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 84872316904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.0021(01)     Document Type: Article

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