An interglacial polar bear and an early Weichselian glaciation at Poolepynten, western Svalbard

Boreas

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 532-543

  Alexanderson, Helena ^a,f   Ingólfsson, Ólafur ^b,c   Murray, Andrew S ^d   Dudek, Justyna ^e  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLACIATION; GLACIOISOSTASY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TRANSGRESSION; WEICHSELIAN;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

BOREAS; URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 84879552403     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00289.x     Document Type: Article

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