A review of studies of the earliest glaciation of Iceland

Terra Nova

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 400-414

  Geirsdóttir, Áslaug ^a   Eiríksson, Jón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLIEST; GLACIATION; LITHOFACIES ANALYSIS; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; TERTIARY;

ICELAND;

EID: 0030390165     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.1996.tb00765.x     Document Type: Review

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