A soil chronosequence from Neoglacial moraines in western Norway

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-62

  Evans, David J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CHRONOSEQUENCE; HOLOCENE; MORAINE; NEOGLACIAL; PEDOGENESIS; PODZOL;

NORWAY;

EID: 0033019169     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0435-3676.1999.00048.x     Document Type: Article

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