Recent glacier history of Glacier Bay, Alaska, and development of vegetation on deglaciated terrain with special reference to the importance of alder in the succession
Lawrence DB. 1950. Recent glacier history of Glacier Bay, Alaska, and development of vegetation on deglaciated terrain with special reference to the importance of alder in the succession. Yearbook of the American Philosophical Society. 1950:175-176
Contains brief report on experiments (in Southeast Alaska approx. 58 degrees 30' N. 136 degrees W.) with a series of chemical and natural fertilizers and their effect on established saplings of cottonwood (Populus tricocarpa hastata). The experimental plots were laid out in summer 1949 on a till plain which had been ice-free for 12-20 years. Specimens of wood were also collected from interstadial fossil forests for age determination with radio-carbon in order to learn when and at what rate the glacier advance took place.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Lawrence, D
- Units
- GLBA
- Keywords
- Alaska, Cenozoic, Chronosequence, Deglaciation, Ecology, Forest, Glacial Geology, Glaciation, Glacier Bay, Holocene, Nutrients, Quaternary, Southeastern Alaska, Succession, Trees, Vegetation