Cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al ages of Holocene moraines in southern Norway II: Evidence for individualistic responses of high-altitude glaciers to millennial-scale climatic fluctuations

Holocene

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1165-1177

  Shakesby, Richard A ^a   Matthews, John A ^a   Schnabel, Christoph ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

10Be; 20Al; 8.2 ka event; Climatic fluctuations; Cosmogenic nuclide dating; Erdalen Event; Finse Event; Glacier variations; Holocene; Ice cored moraine; Individualistic response; Moraine chronology; Neoglacial events; Norway.; Push deformation; Snow shielding

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ALUMINUM; BERYLLIUM; CIRQUE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; GLACIER; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORAINE; SNOW COVER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 57649188151     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683608096592     Document Type: Article

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