Volcanic sands of Iceland - Diverse origins of aeolian sand deposits revealed at Dyngjusandur and Lambahraun

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1789-1808

  Baratoux, D ^a   Mangold, N ^b,c   Arnalds, O ^b,d   Bardintzeff, J M ^b   Platevoet B ^b   Gregoire M ^e   Pinet, P ^a  

^a IRAP   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^e Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

Author keywords

Aeolian; Iceland; Sandur; Tholeiitic basalts; Volcanic sands

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN; ICELANDS; SANDUR; THOLEIITIC BASALTS; VOLCANIC SAND;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BASALT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTALS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; QUARTZ; VOLCANOES;

SAND;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; EOLIAN PROCESS; FLOODPLAIN; GLACIER; LAVA FLOW; MINERALOGY; PLAGIOCLASE; SAND; THOLEIITIC BASALT; VOLCANIC GLASS;

ICELAND; LANGJOKULL; VATNAJOKULL;

EID: 80053926852     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2201     Document Type: Article

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