Mountain-derived versus shelf-based glaciations on the western Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia

Polar Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 273-279

  Hjort, Christian ^a   Funder, Svend ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Glacial history; Glacial inception; Siberian geology

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIATION; GLACIER; ICE CAP; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; SAALIAN; WEICHSELIAN;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BYRRANGA MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; KARA SEA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA; TAYMYR; TAYMYR PENINSULA;

EID: 48049089566     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-8369.2008.00068.x     Document Type: Article

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