Late Holocene climate change and calving glacier fluctuations along the southwestern margin of the Stikine Icefield, Alaska

• Main Author: Viens, Robert J
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Theses > Geology; Crystal Mountain; Stikine; glacier; glaciers; Tidewater; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6737

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2001 The retreat of large tidewater- and lake-calving glaciers, as well as nearby land-based glaciers, in southeastern Alaska during the middle to late Holocene was primarily triggered by increases in summer temperature. Shakes, LeConte, Patterson, and Bair...