The climatic significance of rock glaciers

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 375-395

  Humlum, Ole ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Climate; Glaciers; Greenland; Periglacial; Permafrost; Rock glacier; Topoclimate

Indexed keywords

PALEOCLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; ROCK GLACIER;

ANTARCTICA; GREENLAND;

EID: 0032427268     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1530(199810/12)9:4<375::AID-PPP301>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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