Early Pleistocene climate-induced erosion of the Alaska Range formed the Nenana Gravel

• Published in: Geology
• Main Authors: Sortor, Rachel N., Goehring, Brent M., Bemis, Sean P., Ruleman, Chester A., Caffee, Marc W., Ward, Dylan J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Society of America 2021
• Subjects: Denudation; Record; Loess; Brigham; Chandler; Northern Foothills; alaska range; Ice Sheet; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/109812; https://doi.org/10.1130/G49094.1

The Pliocene-Pleistocene transition resulted in extensive global cooling and glaciation, but isolating this climate signal within erosion and exhumation responses in tectonically active regimes can be difficult. The Nenana Gravel is a foreland basin deposit in the northern foothills of the Alaska Ra...