Latest Pleistocene and Holocene glacier fluctuations in southernmost Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 77, Issue , 2013, Pages 70-79

  Menounos, Brian ^a   Clague, John J ^b   Osborn, Gerald ^c   Davis, P Thompson ^d   Ponce, Federico ^e   Goehring, Brent ^f   Maurer, Malyssa ^a   Rabassa, Jorge ^e   Coronato, Andrea ^e   Marr, Rob ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CENTRO AUSTRAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS CADIC CONICET   (Argentina)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glacier fluctuations; Holocene; Patagonia; Surface exposure dating; Tephrochronology

Indexed keywords

GLACIER FLUCTUATIONS; HOLOCENES; PATAGONIA; SURFACE EXPOSURE DATING; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION;

ICE;

AGE DETERMINATION; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CIRQUE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER RETREAT; HOLOCENE; INSOLATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MORAINE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PLEISTOCENE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

ANDES; ARGENTINA; PATAGONIA; TIERRA DEL FUEGO [(PRV) ARGENTINA];

EID: 84882776044     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.07.008     Document Type: Article

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