Timing and Paleoclimatic Significance of Latest Pleistocene and Holocene Cirque Glaciation in the Enchantment Lakes Basin, North Cascades, WA

• Main Author: Bilderback, Eric L. (Eric Leland)
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Western CEDAR 2004
• Subjects: Cirque glaciers; Eastern North Cascades; Neoglacial advances; Brynhild moraines; Brisingamen moraines; Geology; Heine; High Rock; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/850; https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1873&context=wwuet

The Enchantment Lakes Basin in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Washington, preserves two sets of moraines that record distinct post-Wisconsin maximum advances of cirque glaciers in the eastern North Cascades. Cores collected from five lakes adjacent to the moraines indicate that there were two Neoglaci...