Slow, patchy landscape evolution in northern Sweden despite repeated ice-sheet glaciation

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 398, Issue , 2006, Pages 387-396

  Stroeven, A P ^a   Kleman, J ^a   Hattestrand C ^a   Harbor, J ^b   Fabel, D ^c   Elmore, D ^d   Fink, D ^e   Fredin, O ^f  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Fennoscandian ice sheet; Glacial erosion; Landscape evolution; Terrestrial cosmogenic isotopes

Indexed keywords

EROSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; MAPPING;

COSMOGENIC ISOTOPES; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDE ANALYSIS; GEOMORPHIC MAPPING; GLACIAL EROSION; ICE SHEET; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL CYCLES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BEDROCK; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL; MAPPING; QUATERNARY;

SWEDEN;

EID: 35848935254     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2398(24)     Document Type: Article

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