A holocene record of snow-avalanche and flood activity reconstructed from a lacustrine sedimentary sequence in Oldevatnet, western Norway

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 597-614

  Vasskog, Kristian ^a,b   Nesje, Atle ^a,b   Støren, Eivind Nagel ^a,b   Waldmann, Nicolas ^a,c   Chapron, Emmanuel ^d   Ariztegui, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

density currents; floods; Holocene; palaeoclimate; proglacial lake sediments; snow avalanches; western Norway

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; GRAIN SIZE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SNOW AVALANCHE; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

NORWAY;

EID: 79957661186     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610391316     Document Type: Article

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