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Karin F. Helmens
Researcher at University of Lapland
Publications - 3
Citations - 225
Karin F. Helmens is an academic researcher from University of Lapland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Glacier & Glacial period. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 216 citations.
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The Last Interglacial-Glacial cycle in NE Fennoscandia: a nearly continuous record from Sokli (Finnish Lapland)
TL;DR: In this article, the Sokli basin in Finnish Lapland has been found to contain diamicts interlayered with fine-grained sediments that are rich in fossils, interpreted as till beds deposited by the Fennoscandian Ice-Sheet.
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A Younger Dryas Icecap in the Equatorial Andes
Chalmers M. Clapperton,Minard L. Hall,Patricia Mothes,Malcolm J. Hole,John Still,Karin F. Helmens,Peter Kuhry,Alastair M.D. Gemmell +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, Morphologic and stratigraphic evidence showed that a late-glacial ice cap existed on part of the Eastern Cordillera of Ecuador (Lat. 0° 20′ S) on ground with a mean elevation of 4200 m where none exists now.
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The Quaternary glacial record of the Colombian Andes
TL;DR: In this article, the onset of glaciations in the Colombian Andes as recorded by the start of glaciofluvial sedimentation in the intermontane Bogota basin is dated near the Gauss/Matuyama polarity reversal at 2.6 Ma; episodes of increased glacial activity occurred since ca. 0.8 Ma.