Holocene and latest Pleistocene climate and glacier fluctuations in Iceland

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 21-22, 2009, Pages 2107-2118

  Geirsdóttir, Áslaug ^a   Miller, Gifford H ^b   Axford, Yarrow ^a,b   Saedis Olafsdottir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PROXIES; CLIMATE RECORD; DEGLACIATIONS; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GLACIER FLUCTUATIONS; HOLOCENES; ICE SHEET; ICE-FREE CONDITIONS; ICELANDICS; ICELANDS; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PLEISTOCENE; POLAR FRONT; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; RELATIVE STABILITIES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPRESSION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL MAXIMA; TIDEWATER GLACIERS; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; MARKUP LANGUAGES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BAY; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DEGLACIATION; FJORD; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; HYPSITHERMAL; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NEOGLACIAL; PLEISTOCENE; PREBOREAL; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 69049104440     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.03.013     Document Type: Article

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