Reassessment of supposed early 'Little Ice Age' and older Neoglacial moraines in the Sandane area of western Norway

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Matthews, John A., Nesje, Atle, Dahl, Svein-Olaf
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 1996
• Subjects: Paleontology; Earth-Surface Processes; Ecology; Archeology; Global and Planetary Change; Norway; Jardalen; glacier
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095968369600600113; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/095968369600600113

Neoglacial moraines that are substantially older than the conventional 'Little Ice Age' glacier maximum of the mid-eighteenth century have been recognized recently in the Sandane area of western Norway. This is important in the context of Scandinavian Holocene glacier variations because, i...