Two millennia of glacier advances from southern Iceland dated by tephrochronology

Quaternary Research

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 398-411

  Kirkbride, Martin P ^a   Dugmore, Andrew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dating methods; Holocene; Iceland; Little ice age; Medieval warm period; Moraines; Tephrochronology

Indexed keywords

DATING METHOD; GLACIER ADVANCE; ICE MARGIN; LICHENOMETRY; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; MORAINE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TILL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; EYJAFJALLAJOKULL; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 54849421509     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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