Loess records | North America

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1456-1466

  Roberts, H M ^a   Muhs, D R ^b   Bettis, E A ^c  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

AGCM; Alaska; atmospheric general circulation model; before present; BP; cal yr; calendar year; Central Lowland; CIS; Columbia Plateau; Cordilleran Ice Sheet; Dust; Eolian; Glacial; Glaciogenic; Great Plains; Interglacial; Last Glacial Maximum; Last Glacial Maximum (LGM); Laurentide Ice Sheet; LGM; LIS; Loess; Marine Isotope Stage; MIS; Nonglaciogenic; Paleoclimate; Paleosol; Paleowind; Silt; Yukon Territory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85079768431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-44-452747-8/00163-0     Document Type: Chapter

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