Lichenometric ages of the little ice age moraines on king george island and of the last volcanic activity on penguin island (west antarctica)

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 395-412

  Angiel, Piotr Jan ^a,b   DaBski, Maciej ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Geomorphology; Glaciers; Lichenometry; Little Ice Age; Rhizocarpon geographicum

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; LICHEN; LICHENOMETRY; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORAINE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ANTARCTICA; KING GEORGE ISLAND; PENGUIN ISLAND [SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS]; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS;

RHIZOCARPON; RHIZOCARPON GEOGRAPHICUM; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 84865386503     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: 14680459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2012.00460.x     Document Type: Article

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