The Neoglacial landscape and human history of Glacier Bay, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, southeast Alaska, USA

• Main Authors: Connor, Cathy, Streveler, Greg, Post, Austin, Monteith, Daniel, Howell, Wanye
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2009
• Subjects: Glacier Bay; southeastern Alaska; Neoglacial; ‘Little Ice Age’; outwash plain; ethnographic landscape; Tlingit history; Earth Sciences; Geology; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Other Earth Sciences; Other Environmental Sciences; Lower Bay; Marginal Lake; glacier; tlingit; Alaska
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsstaffpub/906; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/usgsstaffpub/article/1909/viewcontent/Connor_HOLOCENE_2009_The_Neoglacial_landscape.pdf

The Neoglacial landscape of the Huna Tlingit homeland in Glacier Bay is recreated through new interpretations of the lower Bay’s fjordal geomorphology, late Quaternary geology and its ethnographic landscape. Geological interpretation is enhanced by 38 radiocarbon dates compiled from published and un...