Glacier variations in Breheimen, southern Norway: Relative-age dating of Holocene moraine complexes at six high-altitude glaciers

Holocene

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 899-910

  Shakesby, Richard A ^a   Matthews, John A ^a   Winkler, Stefan ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; Boulder weathering; Erdalen Event; Glacier variations; Holocene; Lichenometry; Neoglaciation; Norway; Preboreal; Push deformation moraines; Rhizocarpon geographicum; Schmidt hammer

Indexed keywords

DATING METHOD; GLACIER ADVANCE; HOLOCENE; ICE MARGIN; LICHENOMETRY; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORAINE; PREBOREAL;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

RHIZOCARPON; RHIZOCARPON GEOGRAPHICUM;

EID: 8644279027     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683603hl766rp     Document Type: Article

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