Constraining the southern part of the Greenland Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum from relative sea-level changes, cosmogenic dates and glacial-isostatic adjustment models

Lundqua Thesis

Volumn , Issue 56, 2006, Pages 1-28

  Sparrenbom, Charlotte Jönsson ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Glacial history; Glacial isostatic adjustment models; Greenland; In situ cosmigenic nuclide; Isolation basin; Neo glacial; Sea level changes; XRF scanning

Indexed keywords

BASIN; FOSSIL; GLACIAL HISTORY; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; LAKE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NEOGLACIAL; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TRANSGRESSION; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; NANORTALIK;

EID: 33947145176     PISSN: 02813033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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