Late Weichselian fluvial evolution on the southern Kara Sea Shelf, North Siberia

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 60, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 327-350

  Dittmers, K ^a   Niessen, F ^a   Stein, R ^a  

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

Author keywords

channel incision; Kara Sea; late Weichselian Last Glacial Maximum; river run off; sea level; shelf

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCHANNEL; PALEOHYDROLOGY; REGRESSION; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER EVOLUTION; RUNOFF; WEICHSELIAN;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; KARA SEA; OB RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; YENISEI RIVER;

EID: 38349137429     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.12.006     Document Type: Article

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