Rapid and early deglaciation in the central Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska

Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 419-422

  Pendleton, Simon L ^a,d   Ceperley, Elizabeth G ^a   Briner, Jason P ^a   Kaufman, Darrell S ^b   Zimmerman, Susan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHANGES; GEOMORPHIC EVIDENCE; GLACIAL CLIMATE; GLACIER FLUCTUATIONS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MORAINE BOULDERS; TERMINAL MORAINES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

DATING METHOD; DEGLACIATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MORAINE; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; BROOKS RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929466158     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G36430.1     Document Type: Article

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