Southwest Scandinavia, 40-15 kyr BP: Palaeogeography and environmental change

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 769-786

  Houmark Nielsen, Michael ^a   Kjær, Kurt Henrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

40 15 kyr BP; Glacier dynamics; Palaeogeography; Scandinavian Ice Sheet; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIER DYNAMICS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; SCANDINAVIAN ICE SHEET; STRATIGRAPHY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 0345830737     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.802     Document Type: Article

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