Redating the moraines in the Kromer Valley (Silvretta Mountains) – New evidence for an early Holocene glacier advance

Holocene

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 655-664

  Moran, Andrew P ^a   Kerschner, Hanns ^a   Ochs, Susan Ivy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

10Be; Alps; cosmogenic nuclides; early Holocene; exposure dating; moraines

Indexed keywords

BOULDER; COOLING; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATING METHOD; GLACIER ADVANCE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORAINE; PREBOREAL; STABILIZATION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ALPS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84961590929     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683615612571     Document Type: Article

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