Environmental assessment from the sedimentary record of high-latitude fiords

Geomorphology

Volumn 32, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 295-314

  Gilbert, Robert ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fiords; High latitude; Sediment

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FJORD; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CORE;

EID: 0034059411     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(99)00101-4     Document Type: Article

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