Some aspects of Pleistocene and post-glacial climate change in central Alaska.

• Main Author: Gerard, Robert. D.
• Other Authors: Hare, F. (Supervisor)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: McGill University 1955
• Subjects: Geography; Yukon; Alaska
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=109961

One need only see a glacial map of North America to become aware of a curious, if not anomalous fact. For of all the continental vastness four times-buried under the great ice sheets of the Pleistocene epoch, only one land area of any size remained ice free. That was the area of central Alaska and the western Yukon Territory. Here is to be sought the most complete climatic and stratigraphic record of Pleistocene events on the continent, north of the southern border of ice. Within this area, one is fortunate to find a road and transportation network which makes it accessible to the field worker as no other place in North America so far north.