Mountain climate and periglacial phenomena in the Faeroe Islands

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 189-211

  Humlum, Ole ^a,b   Christiansen, Hanne H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; QUATERNARY; ROCK GLACIER; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

FAROE ISLANDS;

EID: 0032448191     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1530(199807/09)9:3<189::AID-PPP287>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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