Pleistocene ice caps on the coastal mountains of the Adriatic Sea

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 27-28, 2010, Pages 3690-3708

  Hughes, P D ^a   Woodward, J C ^a   van Calsteren, P C ^b   Thomas, L E ^b   Adamson, K R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC; ADRIATIC SEA; ICE THICKNESS; ICE-CAPS; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN CIRCULATION; PLEISTOCENE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; TEMPERATURE CONTRAST; U-SERIES DATING; WATER EQUIVALENT; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEA LEVEL; SNOW;

ICE;

ABLATION; CARBONATE; COASTAL ZONE; GLACIATION; ICE CAP; ICE THICKNESS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MORAINE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; URANIUM SERIES DATING; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ADRIATIC COAST [CROATIA]; ALPS; BALKAN MOUNTAINS; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CROATIA; DINARIC ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; GREECE; GULF OF GENOA; LIGURIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MONTENEGRO;

EID: 77956884983     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.06.032     Document Type: Article

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