Landscape chronology and glacial history in Thule, northwest Greenland

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 109, Issue , 2015, Pages 57-67

  Corbett, Lee B ^a   Bierman, Paul R ^a   Lasher, G Everett ^b   Rood, Dylan H ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beryllium 10; Cosmogenic nuclides; Deglaciation; Holocene; Subglacial erosion

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; DEGLACIATIONS; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HOLOCENES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; RADIOCARBON DATING; STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS;

ICE;

GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIAL LANDFORM; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MOLLUSC; ROCK PROPERTY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; THULE;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 84920149122     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.11.019     Document Type: Article

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