Ice cores from Arctic sub-polar glaciers: Chronology and post-depositional processes deduced from radioactivity measurements

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 49, Issue 164, 2003, Pages 149-158

  Pinglot, Jean Francis ^a   Vaikmäe, Rein A ^b   Kamiyama, Kokichi ^c   Igarashi, Makoto ^c   Fritzsche, Diedrich ^d   Wilhelms, Frank ^d   Koerner, Roy ^e   Henderson, Lori ^f   Isaksson, Elisabeth ^g   Winther, Jan Gunnar ^g   Van De Wal, Roderik S W ^h   Fournier, Marc ⁱ   Bouisset, Patrick ⁱ   Meijer, Harro A J ^j  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

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

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^g NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^h UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ DPRE   (France)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHRONOLOGY; DATING METHOD; GLACIER; ICE CORE; RADIOACTIVITY; TRITIUM;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0348155630     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756503781830944     Document Type: Article

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