Non-glacial paleoenvironments and the extent of Weichselian ice sheets on Severnaya Zemlya, Russian High Arctic

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 21-22, 2003, Pages 2267-2283

  Raab, Alexandra ^a   Melles, Martin ^b   Berger, Glenn W ^c   Hagedorn, Birgit ^d   Hubberten, Hans Wolfgang ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; ICE; LAKES; SEDIMENTS; WATER RESOURCES;

LUMINESCENCE DATING METHODS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT CORE;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0344736842     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00139-2     Document Type: Article

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