Dendroglaciological Evidence for a Neoglacial Advance of the Saskatchewan Glacier, Banff National Park, Canadian Rocky Mountains
dc.contributor.author | Wood, Chris | |
dc.contributor.author | Smith, Dan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-12-13T23:34:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-12-13T23:34:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Wood, C., Smith, D. 2004. Dendroglaciological evidence for a Neoglacial advance of the Saskatchewan Glacier, Banff National Park, Canadian Rocky Mountains. Tree-Ring Research 60(1):59-65. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2162-4585 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1536-1098 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/262633 | |
dc.description.abstract | Seventeen glacially sheared stumps in growth position and abundant detrital wood fragments were exposed by stream avulsion at the terminus of the Saskatchewan Glacier in 1999. The stumps lay buried beneath the glacier and over 5 m of glacial sediment until historical recession and stream incision exposed the 225- to 262-year-old stand of subalpine fir, Englemann spruce and whitebark pine trees. Crossdating and construction of two radiocarbon-controlled floating tree-ring chronologies showed that all the subfossil stumps and boles exposed at this location were killed during a Neoglacial advance of the Saskatchewan Glacier 2,910 ± 60 to 2,730 ± 60 ¹⁴C years B.P. These findings support the Peyto Advance as a regional glaciological response to changing mass balance conditions. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Tree-Ring Society | en_US |
dc.relation.url | http://www.treeringsociety.org | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright © Tree-Ring Society. All rights reserved. | en_US |
dc.subject | Dendrochronology | en_US |
dc.subject | Tree Rings | en_US |
dc.subject | Dendroglaciology | en_US |
dc.subject | Floating Chronology | en_US |
dc.subject | Saskatchewan Glacier | en_US |
dc.subject | Peyto Advance | en_US |
dc.subject | Canadian Rocky Mountains | en_US |
dc.title | Dendroglaciological Evidence for a Neoglacial Advance of the Saskatchewan Glacier, Banff National Park, Canadian Rocky Mountains | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | University of Victoria Tree-Ring Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P5, Canada | en_US |
dc.identifier.journal | Tree-Ring Research | en_US |
dc.description.collectioninformation | This item is part of the Tree-Ring Research (formerly Tree-Ring Bulletin) archive. It was digitized from a physical copy provided by the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at The University of Arizona. For more information about this peer-reviewed scholarly journal, please email the Editor of Tree-Ring Research at editor@treeringsociety.org. | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-06-30T17:06:51Z | |
html.description.abstract | Seventeen glacially sheared stumps in growth position and abundant detrital wood fragments were exposed by stream avulsion at the terminus of the Saskatchewan Glacier in 1999. The stumps lay buried beneath the glacier and over 5 m of glacial sediment until historical recession and stream incision exposed the 225- to 262-year-old stand of subalpine fir, Englemann spruce and whitebark pine trees. Crossdating and construction of two radiocarbon-controlled floating tree-ring chronologies showed that all the subfossil stumps and boles exposed at this location were killed during a Neoglacial advance of the Saskatchewan Glacier 2,910 ± 60 to 2,730 ± 60 ¹⁴C years B.P. These findings support the Peyto Advance as a regional glaciological response to changing mass balance conditions. |