Younger Dryas glacial landsystems in North West Scotland: an assessment of modern analogues and palaeoclimatic implications

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 17-18, 2006, Pages 2390-2408

  Benn, Douglas I ^a,b   Lukas, Sven ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DEFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MORPHOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SEDIMENTOLOGY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

GLACIAL LANDFORMS; GLACIAL LANDSYSTEMS; PALAEOCLIMATIC IMPLICATIONS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

GLACIAL LANDFORM; LANDFORM EVOLUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 33746879144     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.02.015     Document Type: Article

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