Updated September, 2007

(lectures and reading subject to change)

lecture 1 (Cosmogenic exposure dating)

lecture 2 (intro to Beringia and the pre-last glaciation record)

link to animation of the eustatic flooding of the Bering Land Bridge during the last deglaciation

lecture 3 (The late Pleistocene glaciation of the Ahklun Mountains, southwestern Alaska)

lecture 4 (Alaska-wide records of late Pleistocene glaciation)

lecture 5 (Synthesis and controversies: The 'penultimate moraine' and 'Beringian Ice Sheet' problems)

Topic 3: Eastern Canadian Arctic

lecture 6 (intorduction to the Eastern Canadian Arctic & the ice sheet history of the High

Canadian Arctic - lecutre originally assembled by Alexander Wolfe)

lecture 7 (intorduction to Clyde region, Baffin Island, and the timing of glaciation)

lecutre 8 (ice sheet dynamics of northeastern Baffin Island)

My biased reading suggestions:
(be familiar with lots more - course reading list website - but be sure to read these)

Beringia top 3:

1. Brigham-Grette, 2001
2. Briner and Kaufman, submitted
3. letter to the editor debate on ‘Beringian Ice Sheet’ - Brigham-Grette
and Gualtieri et al., 2004; Grosswald and Hughs, 2004

Eastern Canadian Arctic top 3:

1. England, 1998
2. Miller et al., 2002
3. Briner et al., 2006

Other relevant literature - a stockpile of downloadable Briner and gang papers on Beringia and Canada:

link to Briner's publications webiste