Climate variability and glacial processes in eastern Iceland during the past 700 years based on varved lake sediments

Boreas

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-45

  Striberger, Johan ^a   Björck, Svante ^a   Ingólfsson, Ólafur ^b   Kjær, Kurt H ^c   Snowball, Ian ^a   Uvo, Cintia B ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLACIER; GLACIOLOGY; ICE CAP; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; TEPHRA;

ICELAND; VATNAJOKULL;

EID: 78650311613     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00153.x     Document Type: Article

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