We summarize evidence of the latest Pleistocene and Holocene glacier fluctuations in the
Canadian Cordillera. Our review focuses primarily on studies completed after 1988, when …

Tree-ring dating (dendrochronology) is a method of scientific dating based on the analysis of
tree-ring growth patterns. As author James Speer notes, trees are remarkable bioindicators …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews glacier fluctuations of the last millennium from sites
along the Pole-Equator-Pole: Paleoclimate of the America's transect. The techniques …

The establishment of fourteen Little Ice Age (LIA) glacier chronologies in the Mt. Waddington
area led to the development of an extended history of glacial activity in this portion of the …

Most Quaternary research in Canada during the first half of the twentieth century focused on
Pleistocene glaciation. Given the dramatic shifts in climate during the Pleistocene, it is not …

Holocene lateral moraines in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia are commonly
composed of multiple drift units related to several glacier advances. In this paper, we …

Pollen analysis of a 9.03-m-long lake sediment core from Pender Island on the south coast
of British Columbia was used to reconstruct the island's vegetation history over the last …

Terrestrial and lake sediment records from several sites in the southern Coast Mountains,
British Columbia, provide evidence for an advance of alpine glaciers during the early …

We present a high resolution sedimentary record of dinoflagellate cysts spanning the last~
900 years recovered from Effingham Inlet, a glacial fjord on the west coast of Vancouver …

The radial growth characteristics of five high-elevation coniferous tree species were
established from sites located within the southern British Columbia Coast Mountains …