Pattern and timing of the northwestern Barents Sea Ice Sheet deglaciation and indications of episodic Holocene deposition

Boreas

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 494-512

  Rüther, Denise Christina ^a   Bjarnadóttir, Lilja Rún ^a,b   Junttila, Juho ^a   Husum, Katrine ^a   Rasmussen, Tine Lander ^a   Lucchi, Renata Giulia ^c,d   Andreassen, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; DEPOSITION; FACIES; FJORD; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; ICE COVER; ICE RETREAT; ICE SHEET; ICEBERG; LITHOLOGY; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT CORE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

BOREAS; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84862755201     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2011.00244.x     Document Type: Article

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