Tree-Ring Dates for the Maximum Little Ice Age Advance of Kaskawulsh Glacier, St. Elias Mountains, Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Reyes, Alberto V., Luckman, Brian H., Smith, Dan J., Clague, John J., Van Dorp, Richard D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2009
• Subjects: Kaskawulsh Glacier; St. Elias Mountains; Little Ice Age; dendrochronology; Kluane Lake; glacier Kaskawulsh; montagnes St. Elias; petit âge glaciaire; dendrochronologie; lac Kluane; Canada; Yukon; Arctic; glacier; glacier*; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63421

A dendroglaciological study at Kaskawulsh Glacier provides the first calendar dating of a Little Ice Age glacier advance in the northeast St. Elias Mountains of Yukon Territory. Ring series from white spruce trees, Picea glauca (Moench) Voss, that had been sheared, tilted, and killed by deposition o...