Last Glacial Maximum climatic conditions in the Polish part of the High Tatra Mountains (Western Carpathians)

Geological Quarterly

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 253-268

  Makos, Michał ^a   Nitychoruk, Jerzy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

High tatra mountains; Last glacial maximum; Palaeoclimate; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; EQUILIBRIUM LINE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIER; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUBARCTIC REGION;

CARPATHIANS; TATRA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 81455155602     PISSN: 16417291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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