A Proxy Late Holocene Climatic Record Deduced from Northwest Alaska Beach Ridges

• Main Authors: Mason, Owen K., Jordan, James W.
• Other Authors: ALASKA UNIV FAIRBANKS
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1992
• Subjects: Geography; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Meteorology; Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; *ALASKA; *BEACHES; *DUNES; *RIDGES; *SEDIMENTATION; *CLIMATE; BARRIERS; DEPOSITS; EROSION; ICE; INTERVALS; ISLANDS; PATTERNS; PEAT; PENINSULAS; SAND; SOILS; TRANSPORT; SYMPOSIA; RADIOCARBON DATING; Component Reports; *Holocene; Progradation; Fairbanks; Barrier Islands; Barrier Island; Ice; permafrost; Seward Peninsula; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADP007353; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADP007353

A climatically sensitive, oscillatory pattern of progradation and erosion is revealed in late Holocene accretionary sand ridge and barrier island complexes of Seward Peninsula, northwest Alaska. Archaeological and geological radiocarbon dates constrain our chronology for the Cape Espenberg beach rid...