image: Un-vegetated terminal moraine from Nahanni National Park, NWT Canada. The age of these deposits can be determined with surface exposure dating. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 10, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by B. Menounos at University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, BC, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "Cordilleran Ice Sheet mass loss preceded climate reversals near the Pleistocene Termination." view more
Credit: Brian Menounos, UNBC