Responses of mountain ice caps in central Iceland to Holocene climate change

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 13-14, 2006, Pages 1692-1707

  Kirkbride, Martin P ^a   Dugmore, Andrew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIERS; OPTIMIZATION; SOILS;

CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; FINGERPRINTING; ICE CAPS; MORAINE RIDGES;

ICE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; ICE CAP;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

EID: 33745843649     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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