Land uplift-driven shift of the outlet of Lake Ähtärinjärvi, western Finland

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-18

  Seppä, Heikki ^a   Tikkanen, Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Finland; Holocene; Lake ht rinj rvi; Lake level changes; Lakes; Outlets; Paleochannels; Paleolimnology; Transgression; Uplifts

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; LAKE; LAKE LEVEL; PALEOCHANNEL; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; TRANSGRESSION; WATERSHED;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BOTHNIAN BAY; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; GULF OF BOTHNIA; KOKEMAEN RIVER; LANSI-SUOMEN; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33745038034     PISSN: 03675211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17741/bgsf/78.1.001     Document Type: Article

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