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Growth of a post-Little Ice Age submarine fan, Glacier Bay, Alaska

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A small Holocene fan is forming where Queen Inlet, a hanging valley, enters West Arm fjord, Glacier Bay, Alaska. Queen fan formed in the last 80 years following retreat of the Little Ice Age glacier that filled Glacier Bay about 200 yr BP. It was built mainly by a turbidite system originating from Carroll Glacier delta, as the delta formed in the early 1900s at the head of Queen Inlet. The Late Holocene Queen fan is comparable to large Pleistocene fans that formed in the Gulf of Alaska and differs from trough-mouth fans formed by cooler climate glacier systems.

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  1. U. S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, , , , , , US

    P. R. Carlson

  2. Department of Geology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, USA, , , , , , US

    E. A. Cowan

  3. Department of Geology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill 60115, USA, , , , , , US

    R. D. Powell & J. Cai

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Received: 7 January 1999 / Revision received: 3 June 1999

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Carlson, P., Cowan, E., Powell, R. et al. Growth of a post-Little Ice Age submarine fan, Glacier Bay, Alaska. Geo-Marine Letters 19, 227–236 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003670050113

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