A multi-proxy approach to reconstructing Holocene climate variability at Kurupa River Valley, Arctic Alaska

• Main Author: Boldt, Brandon Reed
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Northern Arizona University 2013
• Subjects: Climate Change|Environmental Geology|Paleoclimate Science; Arctic; Ela; Barrow; Brooks Range; Climate change; glacier; glaciers; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation; Alaska
• Online Access: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1537752

Lake sediments and glacier extents were used to reconstruct late Holocene climate changes from Kurupa Lake (N 68.35°, W 154.61°; 920 m asl) in the north-central Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska. The lake is fed by several tributaries, including meltwater from eight rapidly disappearing cirque glaciers. A...