Cirque glaciers as morphological evidence for a thin Youngen Dry as ice sheet in east-central southern Norway

Boreas

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 161-180

  Dahl, Svein Olaf ^a   Nesje, Atle ^a   Øvstedal, Jarl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Oslo Hovedflyplass AS   (Norway)

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EID: 5544224776     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.1997.tb00850.x     Document Type: Article

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