Late Quaternary marine-based Kara Sea ice sheets: A review of terrestrial stratigraphic data highlighting their formation

Polar Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 152-161

  Ingólfsson, Ólafur ^a   Möller, Per ^b   Lokrantz, Hanna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Kara Sea; Late Quaternary; Marine basedice sheet; Western Siberia

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIOTECTONICS; ICE CAP; ICE SHEET; INLAND SEA; MORAINE; QUATERNARY; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; KARA SEA; SIBERIA;

EID: 48049093656     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-8369.2008.00060.x     Document Type: Review

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