Radiocarbon chronology of Holocene colluvial (debris-flow) events at Sletthamn, Jotunheimen, southern Norway: A window on the changing frequency of extreme climatic events and their landscape impact

Holocene

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1107-1129

  Matthews, John A ^a   Dahl, Svein Olaf ^b,c   Dresser, P Quentin ^a   Berrisford, Mark S ^a   Lie, Øyvind ^b,c   Nesje, Atle ^b,c   Owen, Geraint ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic alpine environments; Climate change impacts; Colluvium; Debris flow history; Extreme climatic events; Holocene; Jotunheimen; Landscape instability; Millennial scale variability; Norway; Radiocarbon chronology; Slope foot mires

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEBRIS FLOW; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE; MIRE; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 70449969422     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609344674     Document Type: Article

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