Developing frameworks for studies on sedimentary fluxes and budgets in changing cold environments

Quaestiones Geographicae

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-18

  Beylich, Achim A ^a,b   Lamoureux, Scott F ^c   Decaulne, Armelle ^d,e  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cold environments; Contemporary sediment fluxes and budgets; Coordinated data collection and exchange; Inter site comparisons; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLD REGION; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; VEGETATION COVER;

CANADA; ICELAND; NORWAY;

EID: 79953299703     PISSN: 0137477X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10117-011-0001-5     Document Type: Article

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