Storegga tsunami sand in peat below the Tapes beach ridge at Harøy, western Norway, and its possible relation to an early Stone Age settlement

Boreas

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 476-483

  Bondevik, Stein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

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Indexed keywords

BEACH RIDGE; GLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; TSUNAMI;

EID: 0042691224     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2003.tb01229.x     Document Type: Article

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