Climate change threatens archaeologically significant ice patches: insights into their age, internal structure, mass balance and climate sensitivity

Despite numerous spectacular archaeological discoveries worldwide related to melting ice patches and the emerging field of glacial archaeology, governing processes related to ice patch development during the Holocene and their sensitivity to climate change are still largely unexplored. Here we prese...

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Main Authors: R. S. Ødegård, A. Nesje, K. Isaksen, L. M. Andreassen, T. Eiken, M. Schwikowski, C. Uglietti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2017-01-01
Series:The Cryosphere
Online Access:http://www.the-cryosphere.net/11/17/2017/tc-11-17-2017.pdf