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| Micromorphology of modern tills in southwestern Spitsbergen – insights into depositional and post-depositional processes

Rachlewicz, Grzegorz; Skolasińska, Katarzyna; Szczuciński, Witold

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Title

Micromorphology of modern tills in southwestern Spitsbergen – insights into depositional and post-depositional processes

Journal title

Polish Polar Research

Yearbook

2016

Volume

vol. 37

Issue

No 4

Authors

Rachlewicz, Grzegorz ; Skolasińska, Katarzyna ; Szczuciński, Witold

Keywords

Arctic ; microstructures ; postdepositional changes ; subglacial till ; supraglacial till ; Svalbard

Divisions of PAS

Nauki o Ziemi

Coverage

435-456

Publisher

Polish Academy of Sciences ; Committee on Polar Research

Date

2016

Type

Artykuły / Articles

Identifier

DOI: 10.1515/popore-2016-0023 ; ISSN 0138-0338 ; eISSN 2081-8262

Source

Polish Polar Research; 2016; vol. 37; No 4; 435-456

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Editorial Advisory Board

Robert BIALIK (Warszawa, Poland)

Magda BŁAŻEWICZ (Łódź, Poland)

Alistair CRAME (Cambridge, UK)

Josef ELSTER (České Budějovice, Czechia)

Jacek JANIA (Sosnowiec, Poland)

Cezary KABAŁA (Wrocław, Poland)

Jerónimo LÓPEZ-MARTINEZ (Madrid, Spain)

Krzysztof MIGAŁA (Wrocław, Poland)

Jerzy NAWROCKI (Warszawa, Poland)

Maria OLECH (Kraków, Poland)

Sergej OLENIN (Klaipeda, Litva)

Sandra PASSCHIER (Montclair, USA)

Jan PAWŁOWSKI (Sopot, Poland)

Żaneta POLKOWSKA (Gdańsk, Poland)

Gerhard SCHMIEDL (Hamburg, Germany)

Peter SCHWEITZER (Vienna, Austria)

Janne SOREIDE (UNIS, Svalbard)

Lech STEMPNIEWICZ (Gdańsk, Poland)

Mateusz STRZELECKI (Wrocław, Poland)

Witold SZCZUCIŃSKI (Poznań, Poland)

Slawek TULACZYK (Santa Cruz, USA)

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