Formation, meltout processes and landscape alteration of high-arctic ice-cored moraines - Examples from Nordenskiöld land, central Spitsbergen

Polar Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 157-187

  Lukas, Sven ^a   Nicholson, Lindsey I ^a   Ross, Fionna H ^a   Humlum, Ole ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; FORMATION MECHANISM; MORAINE;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 33645288270     PISSN: 1088937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/789610198     Document Type: Article

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