Late Holocene and modern glacier changes in the marginal zone of Sólheimajökull, South Iceland

Jokull

Volumn 2012, Issue 62, 2012, Pages 111-130

  Schomacker, Anders ^a   Benediktsson, Ívar Örn ^b,c   Ingólfsson, Ólafur ^b   Friis, Bjarki ^d   Korsgaard, Niels Jákup ^e   Kjær, Kurt H ^e   Keiding, Jakob Kløve ^f  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Store Norske Spitsbergen Grubekompani AS   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

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EID: 84917730133     PISSN: 04490576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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