Landscape imprints of changing glacial regimes during ice-sheet build-up and decay: A conceptual model from Svalbard

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 92, Issue , 2014, Pages 258-268

  Landvik, Jon Y ^a   Alexanderson, Helena ^b   Henriksen, Mona ^a   Ingólfsson, Ólafur ^c,d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

Glacial regime; Ice flow; Landscape imprints; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; GLACIAL CYCLES; GLACIAL REGIME; ICE FLOW; LANDSCAPE IMPRINTS; MARINE RECORD; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; SVALBARD;

ICE;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FJORD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIATION; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAM;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84900391955     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.11.023     Document Type: Article

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