Little Ice Age advance and retreat sediment budgets for an outlet glacier in western Norway

Boreas

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 551-566

  Burki, Valentin ^a   Hansen, Louise ^a   Fredin, Ola ^a   Andersen, Thorbjørn A ^b   Beylich, Achim A ^a   Jaboyedoff, Michel ^c   Larsen, Eiliv ^a   Tønnesen, Jan Frederik ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; EROSION RATE; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIER RETREAT; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORAINE; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT; UNCONSOLIDATED MEDIUM;

NORWAY;

EID: 78649500836     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00133.x     Document Type: Article

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