Rates of Holocene chemical weathering, 'Little Ice Age' glacial erosion and implications for Schmidt-hammer dating at a glacier-foreland boundary, Fåbergstølsbreen, southern Norway

Holocene

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 829-834

  Owen, Geraint ^a   Matthews, John A ^a   Albert, Paul G ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; Bedrock surfaces; Calibrated age dating; Chemical weathering rates; Denudation; Differential weathering; Glacial erosion rates; Glacier foreland; Holocene; Neoglaciation; Norway; Schmidt hammer

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DATING METHOD; EROSION RATE; GLACIAL EROSION; GNEISS; HOLOCENE; ICE CAP; LITTLE ICE AGE; QUARTZ VEIN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 35648941233     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683607081419     Document Type: Article

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