Post-Glacial Radiocarbon Ages for the Southern Cordilleran Ice Sheet
The Pleistocene Cordilleran Ice Sheet (CIS) formed over mountainous terrain in northwestern North America, and last reached a maximum extent around 15 to 17 ka BP. Following this maximum, the ice sheet began to diminish in size. Retreat was rapid in some sectors, but was punctuated by still-stands a...
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Ubiquity Press
2019-05-01
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Online Access: | http:///articles/55 |