Nearshore Arctic subsea permafrost in transition

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Volumn 88, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 149-150

  Rachold, Volker ^a,b   Bolshiyanov, Dmitry Yu ^c   Grigoriev, Mikhail N ^d   Hubberten, Hans Wolfgang ^a   Junker, Rall ^e   Kunitsky, Victor V ^d   Merker, Franziska ^a   Overduin, Paul ^a   Schneider, Waldemar ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b International Arctic Science Committee   (Sweden)

^c ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d MELNIKOV PERMAFROST INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMATION MECHANISM; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; TRANSITION ZONE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 34247478958     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007eo130001     Document Type: Article

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