Glacier fluctuations during the past 2000 years

ON Solomina, RS Bradley, V Jomelli… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
A global compilation of glacier advances and retreats for the past two millennia grouped by
17 regions (excluding Antarctica) highlights the nature of glacier fluctuations during the late …

Little Ice Age wetting of interior Asian deserts and the rise of the Mongol Empire

AE Putnam, DE Putnam, L Andreu-Hayles… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The degree to which warming of the planet will alter Asia's water resources is an important
question for food, energy, and economic security. Here we present geological evidence …

Cordilleran Ice Sheet mass loss preceded climate reversals near the Pleistocene Termination

B Menounos, BM Goehring, G Osborn, M Margold… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The Cordilleran Ice Sheet (CIS) once covered an area comparable to that of Greenland.
Previous geologic evidence and numerical models indicate that the ice sheet covered much …

[HTML][HTML] A revised sea level history for the northern Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada

D Fedje, D McLaren, TS James, Q Mackie… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
A refined relative sea level (RSL) history spanning the past 14,300 calendar years is
described for the Quadra Island area in the northern Strait of Georgia on the Pacific coast of …

Response of North American ice sheets to the Younger Dryas cold reversal (12.9 to 11.7 ka)

AS Dalton, M Margold, HE Dulfer, SL Norris… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Younger Dryas (YD; 12.9 to 11.7 thousand years before present [ka]) was an
abrupt cooling event in the North Atlantic region that interrupted the last deglaciation. This …

A glacial readvance during retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, British Columbia central coast

JBR Eamer, DH Shugar, IJ Walker, OB Lian… - Quaternary …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Descriptions of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet retreat after the last glacial maximum have
included short-lived readvances occurring during the Older and Younger Dryas stadial …

Slowstands, stillstands and transgressions: Paleoshorelines and archaeology on Quadra Island, BC, Canada

D Fedje, D McLaren, Q Mackie, B Menounos - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract On Quadra Island, west coast Canada, a series of marine terraces formed during a
period of rapid marine regression from 200 m to 1 m above modern levels between ca …

Holocene glacier activity in the british columbia coast mountains, Canada

BJ Mood, DJ Smith - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Coast Mountains flank the Pacific Ocean in western British Columbia, Canada.
Subdivided into the southern Pacific Ranges, central Kitimat Ranges and northern Boundary …

Tandem dating methods constrain late Holocene glacier advances, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia

AC Hawkins, B Menounos, BM Goehring… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Combined use of radiocarbon-dated subfossil wood within lateral moraines and surface
exposure ages on moraine boulders provides an approach to better constrain times of …

Late Quaternary landscape evolution in a region of stable postglacial relative sea levels, British Columbia central coast, Canada

JBR Eamer, DH Shugar, IJ Walker, CM Neudorf… - Boreas, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
After retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet (CIS) and subsequent glacio‐isostatic adjustment of
the central coast of British Columbia (BC), Canada, a complex coastline emerged as relative …