A New Timeline for Glacial Retreat in Western Canada (6 of 9) (IMAGE)

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A New Timeline for Glacial Retreat in Western Canada (6 of 9)

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The accelerator and associated equipment of the Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory (PRIME), one of the laboratories participating in the study. 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."

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Marc Caffee, Purdue University

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