Lateglacial and early Holocene palaeoclimatic reconstruction based on glacier fluctuations and equilibrium-line altitudes at northern Folgefonna, Hardanger, western Norway

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 179-198

  Bakke, Jostein ^a   Dahl, Svein Olaf ^a   Nesje, Atle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Equilibrium line altitudes (ELAs); Erdalen Event; Glacier fluctuations; Grain size analyses; Jondal Event; Norway; Preboreal Oscillation (PBO); Winter precipitation; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

EQUILIBRIUM LINE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PREBOREAL; YOUNGER DRYAS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

EID: 14944344622     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.893     Document Type: Article

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