Late Pleistocene glacial chronologies and paleoclimate in the northern Rocky Mountains

• Published in: Climate of the Past
• Main Authors: Quirk, Brendon J., Huss, Elizabeth, Laabs, Benjamin J. C., Leonard, Eric, Licciardi, Joseph, Plummer, Mitchell A., Caffee, Marc W.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Northern Rockies; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-293-2022; https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/18/293/2022/

The geologic record of mountain glaciations is a robust indicator of terrestrial paleoclimate change. During the last glaciation, mountain ranges across the western US hosted glaciers while the Cordilleran and Laurentide ice sheets flowed to the west and east of the continental divide, respectively....