Holocene glacial and colluvial activity in Leirungsdalen, eastern Jotunheimen, south-central Norway

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 25-40

  Sandvold, Sigurd ^a   Lie, Øyvind ^b   Nesje, Atle ^b   Dahl, Svein Olaf ^b  

^a WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

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