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Abbravation: Quaternary Research
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Cambridge University Press
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Authors: Robert M Thorson
Publish Date: 1980/05
Volume: 13, Issue: 3, Pages: 303-321
Abstract
During the Vashon Stade of the Fraser Glaciation about 15000–13000 yr BP a lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet occupied the Puget lowland of western Washington At its maximum extent about 14000 yr ago the ice sheet extended across the Puget lowland between the Cascade Range and Olympic Mountains and terminated about 80 km south of Seattle Meltwater streams drained southwest to the Pacific Ocean and built broad outwash trains south of the ice margin Reconstructed longitudinal profiles for the Puget lobe at its maximum extent are similar to the modern profile of Malaspina Glacier Alaska suggesting that the ice sheet may have been in a nearequilibrium state at the glacial maximum Progressive northward retreat from the terminal zone was accompanied by the development of icemarginal streams and proglacial lakes that drained southward during initial retreat but northward during late Vashon time Relatively rapid retreat of the Juan de Fuca lobe may have contributed to partial stagnation of the northwestern part of the Puget lobe Final destruction of the Puget lobe occurred when the ice retreated north of Admiralty Inlet The sea entered the Puget lowland at this time allowing the deposition of glacialmarine sediments which now occur as high as 50 m altitude These deposits together with icemarginal meltwater channels presumed to have formed above sea level during deglaciation suggest that a significant amount of postglacial isostatic andor tectonic deformation has occurred in the Puget lowland since deglaciation
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Other Papers In This Journal:
- The Timing of Late Pleistocene Mammalian Extinctions in North America
- An Altitudinal Cline in Tropical African Grass Floras and Its Paleoecological Significance
- Glaciations of the West Coast Range, Tasmania
- Tephrochronology of Late Wisconsin Deglaciation and Holocene Glacier Fluctuations Near Glacier Peak, North Cascade Range, Washington
- Determining the Exposure Age of a Karst Landscape
- Stable Isotope Stratigraphy of a Late Last Interglacial Speleothem from Rana, Northern Norway
- Holocene Paleoenvironmental Change in the Kenyan Central Rift as Indicated by Micromammals from Enkapune Ya Muto Rockshelter
- Paleoecological Studies at Lake Patzcuaro on the West-Central Mexican Plateau and at Chalco in the Basin of Mexico 1
- Some Effects of Partial Recrystallisation on 14 C dating Late Pleistocene Corals and Molluscs
- Some Effects of Partial Recrystallisation on 14 C dating Late Pleistocene Corals and Molluscs
- Climate Variation and the Rise and Fall of an Andean Civilization
- Saharan Dust Transport and High-Latitude Glacial Climatic Variability: The Alboran Sea Record
- Pedogenic Gradients for Iron and Aluminum Accumulation and Phosphorus Depletion in Arctic and Alpine Soils as a Function of Time and Climate
- Glacial-Marine Sedimentation and Quaternary Glacial History of Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula
- QUA volume 31 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
- Paleoclimatic Significance of the Stable Isotopic Composition and Petrology of a Late Pleistocene Stalagmite from Botswana
- Mass Balance and Sliding Velocity of the Puget Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet During the Last Glaciation
- Tephrochronology of the Western Gulf of Mexico for the Last 185,000 Years
- Is There Evidence for Solar Forcing of Climate in the GISP2 Oxygen Isotope Record?
- Plio-Pleistocene Marine-Continental Correlation using Habitat Indicators from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
- Late Weichselian Marine 14 C Reservoir Ages at the Western Coast of Norway
- Late-Glacial and Early Holocene Environmental and Climatic Change at Lake Tambichozero, Southeastern Russian Karelia
- The Late Wisconsinan Savanna Terrace in Tributaries to the Upper Mississippi River
- The Late Wisconsinan Savanna Terrace in Tributaries to the Upper Mississippi River
- Optical Dating of Holocene Dune Sands in the Ferris Dune Field, Wyoming
- Fire and Vegetation History from the Coastal Rain Forest of the Western Oregon Coast Range
- Alluvial Pollen on the North China Plain
- Vegetation, Climate, and Sea Level in the Past 55,000 Years, Hanjiang Delta, Southeastern China
- Aspartic Acid Racemization in Late Wisconsin Lake Ontario Sediments
- The Classic Marine Isotope Substage 5e
- Mire Development and Environmental Change, Barrington Tops, New South Wales, Australia
- Significance of Two New Pleistocene Plant Records from Western Europe
- Lake Tapps Tephra: An Early Pleistocene Stratigraphic Marker in the Puget Lowland, Washington
- Modern and Holocene Pollen Assemblages from Some Small Arctic Lakes on Somerset Island, NWT, Canada
- Toward the Definition of Criteria for the Recognition of Artificial Bone Alterations 1
- Late Weichselian and Holocene Relative Sea-level History of Bröggerhalvöya, Spitsbergen
- A Comparison of Radiolarian and Foraminiferal Paleoecology in the Southern Indian Ocean: New Evidence for the Interhemispheric Timing of Climatic Change
- Late Wisconsin Ice-Surface Profile Calculated from Esker Paths and Types, Katahdin Esker System, Maine
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