Quaternary glacial history of Mount Olympus, Greece

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 809-824

  Smith, Geoffrey W ^a   Nance, R Damian ^a   Genes, Andrew N ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; EROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

GLACIAL HISTORY; HOLOCENES; NEOTECTONIC HISTORY; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTARY PACKAGES; STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; STREAM EROSION;

LANDFORMS;

CIRQUE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GLACIAL HISTORY; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PEDOGENESIS; UPLIFT; GLACIATION; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY;

GREECE; MOUNT OLYMPUS; THESSALY;

EID: 0031413374     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0809:QGHOMO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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