Glacial history, Holocene shoreline displacement and palaeoclimate based on radiocarbon ages in the area of Bockfjorden, north-western Spitsbergen, Svalbard

Polar Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-24

  Salvigsen, Otto ^a   Høgvard, Kirsti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Store Norske Spitsbergen Grubekompani AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL HISTORY; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; SHORELINE;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

BIVALVIA;

EID: 32044463119     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-8369.2006.tb00147.x     Document Type: Article

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