Fluctuations of mountain glaciers in northern Norway throughout the Holocene

• Main Author: LEIGH, JOSHUA,ROBERT
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Glaciology; Glaciers; Norway; Holocene; Little Ice Age; Climate change; Lichenometry; Remote Sensing; Schmidt hammer; Geomorphology; Arctic; Geochronology; Prior Glacier; Rotsund; Finnmark; glacier; Ice Sheet; Kåfjord; Northern Norway; Troms
• Online Access: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14346/; http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14346/1/JRLeigh_FullThesis_Amended_02.03.2022.pdf; http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14346/2/Leighetal2021_CompressedMapFinal.pdf

Mountain glaciers are an intrinsic part of the cryosphere and their short response times make them crucial indicators of climate change. Comprehensive investigations into long- and short-term glacier fluctuations are essential in developing reliable reconstructions of past climate variability and pl...