Separation of late-Holocene episodic paraglacial events and glacier fluctuations in eastern Jotunheimen, central southern Norway

Holocene

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1179-1191

  Stren, Eivind Nagel ^a,b   Dahl, Svein Olaf ^a,b   Lie, Oyvind ^a  

^a BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Glacier fluctuations; Jotunheimen; Lake sediments; Late Holocene; Mass movements; Norway.; Paraglacial activity; River floods

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; FLOOD; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MASS MOVEMENT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; JOTUNHEIMEN; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; OPPLAND; RUSSVATNET; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 67749145327     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683608096593     Document Type: Article

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