Glaciotectonised Quaternary sediments at Cape Shpindler, Yugorski Peninsula, Arctic Russia: Implications for glacial history, ice movements and Kara Sea Ice Sheet configuration

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 527-543

  Lokrantz, Hanna ^a   Ingólfsson, Ólafur ^b   Forman, Steven L ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

14C; Arctic Russia; Chronology; Glacial history; Glaciotectonism; Kara Sea; Lithostratigraphy; Massive ground ice; OSL; Pleistocene; Yugorski Peninsula

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; GLACIOTECTONICS; ICE MOVEMENT; ICE SHEET; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; QUATERNARY;

CAPE SHPINDLER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; YUGORSKI PENINSULA;

EID: 0141650549     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.771     Document Type: Article

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