Weathering characteristics of arctic islands in northern Norway

Geomorphology

Volumn 82, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 430-452

  Paasche, Øyvind ^a   Strømsøe, Jørund Raukleiv ^a   Dahl, Svein Olaf ^a,b   Linge, Henriette ^a  

^a BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Blockfields; Clay mineral; Deep weathering; Gibbsite; Ice sheets; Saprolites; Tertiary

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLAY MINERAL; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GIBBSITE; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL LANDFORM; ICE SHEET; MORAINE; PERIGLACIAL LANDFORM; QUATERNARY; SAPROLITE; STRATIGRAPHY; TERTIARY; WEATHERING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33751366269     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.05.016     Document Type: Article

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