Glacial and Climate History of the Antarctic Peninsula since the Last Glacial Maximum

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 175-186

  Ingólfsson, Ólafur ^a   Hjort, Christian ^b   Humlum, Ole ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; GLACIAL HISTORY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0141703240     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(2003)035[0175:GACHOT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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