The Younger Dryas climatic conditions in the Za Mnichem Valley (Polish High Tatra Mountains) based on exposure-age dating and glacier-climate modelling

Boreas

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 745-761

  Makos, Michał ^a   Nitychoruk, Jerzy ^a   Zreda, Marek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BEDROCK; BOULDER; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; DEGLACIATION; GLACIER; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MASS BALANCE; MORAINE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VALLEY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CARPATHIANS; TATRA MOUNTAINS;

BOREAS;

EID: 84879602490     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00298.x     Document Type: Article

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