Northwest Svalbard during the last glaciation: Ice-free areas existed

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 905-908

  Landvik, Jon Y ^a   Brook, Edward J ^b   Gualtieri, Lyn ^c   Raisbeck, Grant ^d   Salvigsen, Otto ^e   Yiou, Françoise ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d 91405 Orsay Campus   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Exposure age; Last Glacial Maximum; Nunataks; Svalbard; Weichselian

Indexed keywords

GLACIATION;

COASTAL ZONES; GEOLOGY; ICE; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEA LEVEL;

GLACIERS;

ERRATIC; ICE COVER; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NUNATAK; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 0242497198     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G19703.1     Document Type: Article

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