Postglacial colluvium in western Norway: depositional processes, facies and palaeoclimatic record

Sedimentology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 909-959

  Blikra, Lars H ^a   Nemec, W ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FACIES ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE; POSTGLACIAL; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

NORWAY;

EID: 0032457009     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1998.00200.x     Document Type: Article

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