Expanded Late Wisconsinan ice cap and ice sheet margins in the western Queen Elizabeth Islands, Arctic Canada

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 91, Issue , 2014, Pages 146-164

  Nixon, F Chantel ^a   England, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Glacial geomorphology; Innuitian Ice Sheet; Last Glacial Maximum; Laurentide Ice Sheet; Queen Elizabeth Islands; Radiocarbon chronology

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; LANDFORMS; SNOW; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

CANADA; GLACIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS; RADIOCARBON CHRONOLOGY;

GLACIERS;

EID: 84899966173     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.036     Document Type: Article

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