Southern Laurentide ice-sheet retreat synchronous with rising boreal summer insolation

Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 23-26

  Ullman, David J ^a,b   Carlson, Anders E ^a,b   LeGrande, Allegra N ^c   Anslow, Faron S ^d   Moore, Angus K ^b,e   Caffee, Marc ^f   Syverson, Kent M ^g   Licciardi, Joseph M ^h  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^h Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GLACIERS; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

GLOBAL ICE VOLUME; ICE-SHEET RETREAT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; ORBITAL FORCING; SURFACE ABLATION; SURFACE EXPOSURE AGE; SURFACE MASS BALANCE;

ICE;

ABLATION; DEGLACIATION; ICE MARGIN; ICE RETREAT; LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MASS BALANCE; MORAINE;

EID: 84920411596     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G36179.1     Document Type: Article

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