Glacial history of the barents sea region

Developments in Quaternary Science

Volumn 15, Issue , 2011, Pages 361-372

  Vorren, Tore O ^a   Landvik, Jon Y ^b   Andreassen, Karin ^a   Laberg, Jan Sverre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Deglaciation; Ice streams; Pleistocene; Svalbard; Trough mouth fans

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959844187     PISSN: 15710866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53447-7.00027-1     Document Type: Book

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