4 Deglaciation and Holocene Glacial History of Iceland

Developments in Quaternary Science

Volumn 13, Issue , 2010, Pages 51-68

  Ingólfsson, Ólafur ^a   Norddahl, Hreggvidur ^a   Schomacker, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Holocene; Icelandic ice sheet; Little Ice Age; Sea level; Weichselian

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349181309     PISSN: 15710866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1571-0866(09)01304-9     Document Type: Review

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