Rockglacier activity during the Last Glacial-Interglacial transition and Holocene spring snowmelting

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 793-807

  Paasche, Øyvind ^a   Dahl, Svein Olaf ^a,b   Løvlie, Reidar ^b   Bakke, Jostein ^a,b   Nesje, Atle ^a,b  

^a BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAKES; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SNOW;

MEAN ANNUAL AIR TEMPERATURES (MAAT); ROCKGLACIER; SNOWMELTING; WARMING SPELLS;

GLACIERS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DEGLACIATION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PERMAFROST; ROCK GLACIER; SNOWMELT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33947518182     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.11.017     Document Type: Article

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