Impacts of Pleistocene glaciation and its Geophysical Effects on North American River Systems

• Main Author: Wickert, Andrew David
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: CU Scholar 2014
• Subjects: Deglaciation; Drainage basins; Glacial isostatic adjustment; Laurentide Ice Sheet; Meltwater; Mississippi River; Climate; Geomorphology; Geophysics and Seismology; American River; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://scholar.colorado.edu/geol_gradetds/79; https://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1083&context=geol_gradetds

During Pleistocene glacial cycles, ice sheets advanced into the drainage basins of North America, warping the lithosphere beneath them, rerouting river systems, and sending meltwater to the oceans. Here I reconstruct the history of North American rivers and drainage patterns since the Last Glacial M...