Environmental change in Garibaldi Provincial Park, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia

Geoscience Canada

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 127-135

  Koch, Johannes ^a   Menounos, Brian ^b   Clague, John J ^a   Osborn, Gerald D ^c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA RECORDING; DATA REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMBERS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS;

LAKE SEDIMENTS; PHOTOGRAPHS; TREE-RINGS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIER ADVANCE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TREE RING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 8844284498     PISSN: 03150941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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