Climate change and 'anomalous' glacier fluctuations: The southwest outlets of Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland

Boreas

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 108-122

  Casely, Andrew F ^a   Dugmore, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER RETREAT; PALEOCLIMATE;

ARCTIC; ICELAND; MYRDALSJOKULL;

EID: 3242765267     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2004.tb01133.x     Document Type: Article

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