Cirque glacier activity in arctic Norway during the last deglaciation

Quaternary Research

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 387-399

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

ELA; Glacier; Norway; Seasonality; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

CIRQUE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; LAST DEGLACIATION; MORAINE; RADIOCARBON DATING; YOUNGER DRYAS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LOFOTEN; NORDLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 35348854979     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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