The Kankakee Torrent and other large meltwater flooding events during the last deglaciation, Illinois, USA

BB Curry, ER Hajic, JA Clark, KM Befus… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Evidence of the Kankakee Torrent (Ekblaw and Athy, 1925) includes boulder bars
formed on a scoured bedrock surface west of Kankakee, Illinois, and overflow channels that …

Two-stage evolution of glacial-period Asian monsoon circulation by shifts of westerly jet streams and changes of North American ice sheets

H Wang, W Zhou, P Shu, B Hong, Z An - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Compilation of North American loess, dune, lacustrine, and glacial moraine
morphological records at places along the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet shows intra …

Revised time-distance diagram for the Lake Michigan Lobe, Michigan subepisode, Wisconsin episode, Illinois, USA

BB Curry, TV Lowell, H Wang, AC Anderson - 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Based on the interpretation of 893 finite radiocarbon ages, we have revised the time-
distance diagram for the Lake Michigan Lobe of the Laurentide ice sheet in Illinois. The data …

Westerly and Laurentide ice sheet fluctuations during the last glacial maximum

H Wang, Z An, X Zhang, P Shu, F He, W Liu… - npj Climate and …, 2024 - nature.com
The last glacial maximum (LGM) is widely acknowledged as the most recent cold period
representing maximum global ice conditions. However, substantial warming is observed …

Deglacial hydroclimate of midcontinental North America

SL Voelker, MC Stambaugh, RP Guyette… - Quaternary …, 2015 - cambridge.org
During the last deglaciation temperatures over midcontinental North America warmed
dramatically through the Bølling-Allerød, underwent a cool period associated with the …

Great Plains storm intensity since the last glacial controlled by spring surface warming

C Sun, TM Shanahan, PN DiNezio, NP McKay… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) supply a substantial portion of warm-season rainfall
to the Great Plains of North America, and they are responsible for severe weather and …

A new method to constrain soil development time using both OSL and radiocarbon dating

X Miao, H Wang, PR Hanson, JA Mason, X Liu - Geoderma, 2016 - Elsevier
The time over which a soil has developed since the parent materials were deposited and
subaerially exposed, referred to here as soil development time, is of considerable interest to …

Major dune construction during the Younger Dryas chronozone within the Kankakee River Valley, Great Lakes region, USA: Visible landscape response to rapid …

X Miao - Catena, 2024 - Elsevier
The southern side of the Kankakee River Valley in Illinois and Indiana features an eolain
landscape comprising dunes and sand sheets. These dunes are mostly parabolic in shape …

The Clovis landscape

VT Holliday, DS Miller - Paleoamerican odyssey, 2013 - books.google.com
Clovis is the most geographically extensive occupation of any time in the archaeological
record of the Americas. One aspect of this geographic diversity is the remarkable mobility …

The micromorphology of Younger Dryas-aged black mats from Nevada, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico

E Harris-Parks - Quaternary Research, 2016 - cambridge.org
Black mats are organic-rich sediments and soils that form in wet environments associated
with spring discharge. Micromorphological and geochemical analyses of 25 black mats …