Sediment fingerprinting and the mode of formation of singular and composite annual moraine ridges at two glacier margins, Jotunheimen, southern Norway

Holocene

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1772-1785

  Hiemstra, John F ^a   Matthews, John A ^a   Evans, David J A ^b   Owen, Geraint ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

glacier dynamics; sediment fingerprinting; singular and composite annual moraine formation; southern Norway; thermal regime

Indexed keywords

CLAST; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MORAINE; PERIGLACIAL PROCESS; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SHAPE; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT; THERMAL REGIME;

JOTUNHEIMEN; NORWAY;

EID: 84944565339     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683615591359     Document Type: Article

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