Investigating absolute chronologies of glacial advances in the NW sector of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet with terrestrial in situ cosmogenic nuclides

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 92, Issue , 2014, Pages 429-443

  Stroeven, Arjen P ^a   Fabel, Derek ^b   Margold, Martin ^c   Clague, John J ^d   Xu, Sheng ^e  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cordilleran Ice Sheet; Exposure dating; Pleistocene glaciations; Yukon Territory

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; SHIELDING;

CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; EXPOSURE DATING; EXPOSURE DURATIONS; GLACIAL ADVANCES; MARINE OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PLEISTOCENE; YUKON TERRITORY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GLACIATION; GLACIER ADVANCE; ICE THICKNESS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MORAINE; PLEISTOCENE; POSTGLACIAL;

CANADA; YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 84900456242     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.09.026     Document Type: Article

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