Environmental change in Garibaldi Provincial Park, Southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia.

From: Geoscience Canada | Date: September 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

SUMMARY

We are reconstructing Holocene environments in Garibaldi Provincial Park, in the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia, by examining a diverse set of paleoenvironmental records, including tree-rings, lake sediments, glacial landforms, and photographs. This integrated study, in combination with previous research in adjacent areas, is providing a more detailed picture of past climate, vegetation, and glacier extent in Garibaldi Park than has heretofore been available. The data suggest recurrent, complex, and successively more extensive glacier advances during the ...

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