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Publications (1980-1989)

 

                                                                                   1980

19. Harkness, D.D. and Miller, B.F. (1980)  Possibility of climatically induced variations in the 14C and 13C enrichment patterns as recorded by a 300-year-old Norwegian pine. Radiocarbon 22: 291-298.

 

20. Matthews, J.A. (1980)  Some problems and implications of 14C dates from a podzol buried beneath an end moraine at Haugabreen, southern Norway. Geografiska Annaler, Series A (Physical Geography) 62(A): 185-208.

 

                                                                                   1981

21. Matthews, J.A. (1981)  Natural 14C age/depth gradient in a buried soil. Naturwissenschaften 68: 472-474.

 

                                                                                   1982

22. Ballantyne, C.K. (1982)  Aggregate clast form characteristics of deposits near the margins of four glaciers in the Jotunheimen Massif, Norway.  Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift 36: 103-113.

 

23.  Ballantyne, C.K. and Matthews, J.A. (1982)  The development of sorted circles on recently deglaciated terrain, Jotunheimen, Norway.  Arctic and Alpine Research 14: 341-354.

 

24. Matthews, J.A. (1982)  Soil dating and glacier variations: a reply to Wibjörn Karlén. Geografiska Annaler, Series A (Physical Geography) 64(A): 15-20.†

 

25. Matthews, J.A. and Petch, J.R. (1982)  Within-valley asymmetry and related problems of Neoglacial lateral moraine development at certain Jotunheimen glaciers, southern Norway. Boreas 11: 225-247.

 

†See also: Karlén, W. (1981) A comment on John A. Matthews' article regarding 14C dates of glacier variations. Geografiska Annaler 63A: 19-21.

 

                                                                                  1983 ‡

26. Ballantyne, C.K. and Matthews, J.A. (1983)  Desiccation cracking and sorted polygon development, Jotunheimen, Norway.  Arctic and Alpine Research 15: 339-349.

 

27. Matthews, J.A. and Dresser, P.Q. (1983)  Intensive 14C dating of a buried palaeosol horizon.  Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 105: 59-63.

 

28. Caseldine, C.J. (1983)  Pollen analysis and rates of pollen incorporation into a radiocarbon-dated palaeopodzolic soil at Haugabreen, southern Norway.  Boreas 12: 233-246.

 

29. Ellis, S. (1983)  Stratigraphy and 14C dating of two earth hummocks, Jotunheimen, south central Norway.  Geografiska Annaler, Series A (Physical Geography) 65(A): 279-287.

 

30. Haines-Young, R.H. (1983)  Size variation of Rhizocarpon on moraine slopes in southern Norway.  Arctic and Alpine Research 15: 295-305.

 

31. Harris, C. (1983)  Vesicles in thin sections of periglacial soils from north and south Norway.  Proceedings of the 4th International Permafrost Conference (Fairbanks, Alaska), 445-449. National Academy Press: Washington D.C.

 

                                                                                   1984

 

32. Caseldine, C.J. (1984)  Pollen analysis of a buried arctic-alpine Brown soil from Vestre Memurubreen, Jotunheimen, Norway: evidence for Postglacial high-altitude vegetation change. Arctic and Alpine Research 16: 423-430.

 

33. Ellis, S. and Matthews, J.A. (1984) Pedogenic implications of a 14C-dated paleopodzolic soil at Haugabreen, southern Norway. Arctic and Alpine Research 16: 77-91.

 

34. Harris, C. and Bothamley, I.K. (1984)  Englacial deltaic sediments as evidence for basal freezing and marginal shearing, Leirbreen, southern Norway. Journal of Glaciology 31: 30-34.

 

35. Harris, C. and Matthews, J.A. (1984)  Some observations on boulder-cored frost boils. Geographical Journal 150: 63-73.

 

36. Matthews, J.A. (1984)  Limitations of 14C dates from buried soils in reconstructing glacier variations and Holocene climate.  In Climatic Change on a Yearly to Millennial Basis: Geological, Historical and Instrumental Records (N.A. Mörner and W. Karlén, editors), 281-290.  Reidel: Dordrecht.

 

37. Matthews, J.A. and Shakesby, R.A. (1984)  The status of the `Little Ice Age' in southern Norway: relative-age dating of Neoglacial moraines with Schmidt hammer and lichenometry. Boreas 13: 333-346.

 

38. Richards, K. (1984)  Some observations on suspended sediment dynamics in Storbregrova, Jotunheimen.  Earth Surfaces Processes and Landforms 9: 101-112.

 

‡ Expedition results also appeared in: (1) Maizels, J.K. (1983a) Proglacial channel systems: change and thresholds for change over long, intermediate and short timescales. In Modern and Ancient Fluvial Systems (J.D. Collinson & J. Lewin, editors), 251-266, Blackwell Scientific Publications: Oxford.  (2) Maizels, J.K. (1983b) Palaeovelocity and palaeodischarge determination for coarse gravel deposits. In Background to Palaeohydrology (K.J. Gregory, editor), 101-139. Wiley: Chichester. (3) Coker, P.D. (1983) Seligeria carniolica (Breidl. & Beck) Nyh. and S.     oelandica C. Jens & Med.: two mosses new to Norway. Lindbergia 9: 81-85.

 

 

                                                                                  1985 †

39. Maizels, J. and Petch, J.R. (1985)  Age determination of intermoraine areas, Austerdalen, southern Norway.  Boreas 14: 51-65.

 

40. Haines-Young, R.H. (1985)  Discussion of `Size Variation of Rhizocarpon on Moraine Slopes in Southern Norway': a reply. Arctic and Alpine Research 17: 212-216.‡

 

41. Shakesby, R.A. (1985)  Geomorphological effects of jökulhlaups and ice-dammed lakes, Jotunheimen, Norway.  Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift 39: 1-16.

 

42. Mellor, A. (1985)  Soil chronosequences on Neoglacial moraine ridges, Jostedalsbreen and Jotunheimen, southern Norway: a quantitative pedogenic approach. In Geomorphology and Soils (K.S. Richards, R.R. Arnett and S. Ellis, editors), 289-308. George Allen & Unwin: London.

 

43. Caseldine, C.J. and Matthews, J.A. (1985)  14C dating of palaeosols, pollen analysis and landscape change: studies from the low- and mid-alpine belts of southern Norway. In Soils and Quaternary Landscape Evolution (J. Boardman, editor) 87-116. Wiley: Chichester.

 

44. Vere, D. and Matthews, J.A. (1985)  Rock glacier formation from a lateral moraine at Bukkeholsbreen, Jotunheimen, Norway: a sedimentological approach. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie N.F. 29: 397-415.

 

† Expedition results also appeared in: (1) Innes, J.L. (1985) Lichenometry. Progress in Physical Geography 9: 187-254.  (2) Caseldine, C.J. (1985) The extent of some glaciers in northern Iceland during the Little Ice Age and the nature of recent glaciation. Geographical Journal 151: 215-227.  (3) Matthews, J.A. (1985) Radiocarbon dating of surface and buried soils: principles, problems and prospects. In Geomorphology and Soils

(K.S. Richards, R.R.Arnett & S. Ellis, editors), 269-288. George Allen & Unwin: London. (4) Harris, C. (1985) Geomorphological applications of soil micromorphology with particular reference to periglacial sediments and processes. In Geomorphology and Soils, op. cit., 219-232.  (5) Maizels, J.K. (1986) Modelling of paleohydrologic change during deglaciation. Géographie Physique et Quaternaire 15: 263 -277.

 

‡ See also: Mahaney, W.C. and Spence, J.R. (1985) Discussion of 'Size Variation of Rhizocarpon on Moraine Slopes in Southern Norway' by R.H. Haines-Young. Arctic and Alpine Research 17: 211-212.

 

 

 

1986

45. Dawson, A.G., Matthews, J.A. and Shakesby, R.A. (1986)  A catastrophic landslide (sturzstrom) in Verkilsdalen, Rondane National Park, southern Norway. Geografiska Annaler, Series A (Physical Geography) 68(A): 77-87.

 

46. Harris, C. and Cook, J.D. (1986) The detection of high altitude permafrost in Jotunheimen, Norway, using seismic refraction techniques: an assessment. Arctic and Alpine Research 18: 19-26.



47. Matthews, J.A., Dawson, A.G. and Shakesby, R.A. (1986) Lake shoreline development, frost weathering and rock platform erosion in an alpine periglacial environment, Jotunheimen, southern Norway. Boreas 15: 33-50.



48. Matthews, J.A., Harris, C. and Ballantyne, C.K. (1986) Studies on a gelifluction lobe, Jotunheimen, Norway: 14C chronology, stratigraphy, sedimentology and paleoenvironment. Geografiska Annaler, Series A (Physical Geography) 68(A): 345-360.



49. Matthews, J.A., Innes, J.L. and Caseldine, C.J. (1986) 14C dating and palaeoenvironment of the historic `Little Ice  Age' glacier advance of Nigardsbreen, southwest Norway. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 11: 369-375.



50. Mellor, A. (1986a)  Textural and scanning electron microscope observations of some arctic-alpine soils developed in Weichselian and Neoglacial till deposits in southern Norway. Arctic and Alpine Research 18: 327-336.



51. Mellor, A. (1986b)  Hydrobiotite formation in some Norwegian arctic-alpine soils developing in Neoglacial till. 

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 66: 183-185.



52. Mellor, A. (1986c)  A micromorphological examination of two alpine soil chronosequences, southern Norway. 

Geoderma 39: 41-57.



1987

53. Caseldine, C.J. and Matthews, J.A. (1987)  Podzol development, vegetation change and glacier variations at Haugabreen, southern Norway. Boreas 16: 215-230.



54. Darmody, R.G.,  Thorn, C.E. and Rissing, J.M. (1987) Chemical weathering of fine debris from a series of Holocene moraines: Storbreen, Jotunheimen, southern Norway. Geografiska Annaler, Series A (Physical Geography) 69(A): 405-413.

55. Matthews, J.A. (1987a)  A comment on `Neoglaciation in South Norway using lichenometric methods'. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift 41: 61-67.†

 

56. Dawson, A.G., Matthews, J.A. and Shakesby, R.A. (1987)  Rock platform erosion on periglacial shores: a modern analogue for Pleistocene rock platforms in Britain.  In Periglacial Processes and Landforms in Britain and Ireland (J. Boardman, editor),  173-182. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.



57. Harris, C., Caseldine, C.J. and Chambers, W. (1987)  Radiocarbon dating of a palaeosol buried by sediments of a former ice-dammed lake, Leirbreen, southern Norway.Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift 41: 81-90.



58. Matthews, J.A. (1987b)  Some aspects of the 14C dating of buried soil horizons.  In Soils and the Time Factor (P. Stevens, editor), 13-30.  Institute of Terrestrial Ecology: Bangor. (Welsh Soils Discussion Group Report No. 24).



59. Matthews, J.A. (1987c)  Regional variation in the composition of Neoglacial end moraines, Jotunheimen, Norway: an altitudinal gradient in clast roundness and its possible palaeoclimatic significance. Boreas 16: 173-188.



60. Matthews, J.A. and Caseldine, C.J. (1987) Arctic-alpine Brown Soils as a source of palaeoenvironmental information: further 14C dating and palynological evidence from Vestre Memurubreen, Jotunheimen, Norway. Journal of Quaternary Science 2: 59-71.



61. Matthews, J.A. and Whittaker, R.J. (1987) Vegetation succession on the Storbreen glacier foreland, Jotunheimen, Norway: a review. Arctic and Alpine Research 19: 385-395.



62. McCarroll, D. (1987) The Schmidt hammer in Geomorphology: five sources of instrument error. British Geomorphological Research Group, Tech.Bulletin 36: 16-27.



63. Mellor, A. (1987)  A pedogenic investigation of some soil chronosequences on Neoglacial moraine ridges, southern Norway: examination of soil chemical data using principal components analysis. Catena 14: 369-381.



64. Shakesby, R.A., Dawson, A.G. and Matthews, J.A. (1987)  Rock glaciers, protalus ramparts and related phenomena, Rondane, Norway:  a continuum of large-scale talus-derived landforms. Boreas 16: 305-317.



65. Shakesby, R.A. and Matthews, J.A. (1987) Frost weathering and rock platform erosion on periglacial shorelines: a test of a hypothesis. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 67: 197-203.



66. Smith, D.E. and Firth, C.R. (1987)  The deglaciation of Vetlefjorddalen and Svaeradalen, southern Norway.  Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift 41: 11-21.



67. Whittaker, R.J. (1987) An application of detrended correspondence analysis and non-metric multidimensional scaling to the identification and analysis of environmental factor complexes and vegetation structures.

J. Ecology 75: 363-376.

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† See also: (1) Erikstad, L. and Sollid, J.L. (1986) Neoglaciation in South Norway
using lichenometric methods. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift 40: 85-105.  (2) Erikstad,  L. and Sollid, J.L. (1988) Neoglaciation in South Norway using lichenometric  methods: reply to Matthews. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift 42: 62.




1988

68. Haines-Young, R.H. (1988)  Size-frequency and size-density relationships in populations from the Rhizocarpon subgenus Cern. on moraine slopes in southern Norway.Journal of Biogeography 15: 863-878.



69. Harris, C. and Cook, J.D. (1988)  Micromorphology and microfabrics of sorted circles, Jotunheimen, southern Norway.  Proceedings of the 5th International Permafrost Conference (Trondheim, Norway) 1: 776-783.  Tapir: Trondheim.



70. Messer, A.C. (1988)  Regional variations in rates of pedogenesis and the influence of climatic factors on moraine chronosequences, southern Norway. Arctic and Alpine Research 20: 31-39.



​1989 †

71. Whittaker, R.J. (1989)  The vegetation of the Storbreen gletschervorfeld, Jotunheimen, Norway, III.  Vegetation-environment relationships. Journal of Biogeography 16: 413-433.



72. Crouch, H.J. (1989)  Phyllodoce caerulea (L.) Bab. f. albiflora Hiit. in Norway. Blyttia 47: 121-124.



73. Donnelly, R. and Harris, C. (1989)  Origin and sedimentology of glacio-lacustrine deposits from a small ice-dammed lake, Leirbreen, Norway. Sedimentol. 36: 581-600.



74. Shakesby, R.A., Dawson, A.G. and Matthews, J.A. (1989)  Continuum and age: comments. Boreas 18: 84-85.‡



75. Caseldine, C.J. (1989)  Pollen assemblage-plant community relationships on the Storbreen glacier foreland, Jotunheimen Mountains, southern Norway.  New Phytologist 111: 105-118.



76. McCarroll, D. and Ware, M. (1989)  The variability of soil development on Preboreal moraine ridge crests, Breiseterdalen, southern Norway. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift 43: 31-36.



77. Shakesby, R.A. (1989)  Variability in Neoglacial moraine morphology and composition, Storbreen, Jotunheimen, Norway: within-moraine patterns and their implications. Geografiska Annaler, Series A (Physical Geography) 71(A): 17-29.



78. McCarroll, D., Matthews, J.A. and Shakesby, R.A. (1989)  "Striations" produced by catastrophic subglacial drainage of a glacier-dammed lake, Mjølkedalsbreen, southern Norway. Journal of Glaciology 35: 193-196.
 

79. McCarroll, D. (1989a)  Potential and limitations of the Schmidt hammer for relative-age dating: field tests on Neoglacial moraines, Jotunheimen, southern Norway. Arctic and Alpine Research 21: 268-275.



80. McCarroll, D. (1989b)  Schmidt hammer relative-age evaluation of a possible pre-`Little Ice Age' Neoglacial moraine, Leirbreen, southern Norway.Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 69: 125-130.



81. Vere, D.M. and Benn, D.I. (1989) Structure and debris characteristics of medial moraines in Jotunheimen, Norway: implications for moraine classification.Journal of Glaciology 35: 276-80.



82. Pardoe, H.S. and Matthews, J.A. (1989)  Chernobyl 137Cs fallout in pollen traps from the Jotunheimen-Jostedalsbreen area, southern Norway. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift 43: 231-235.



83. Messer, A.C. (1989)  An alternative approach to the study of pedogenic chronosequences.Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift 43: 221-229.



† Beginning with Jotunheimen Research Expeditions, Contribution No. 71, numbering of papers reflects the order of acceptance for publication. ‡ This is a reply to: Kirkbride, M. (1989) About concepts of continuum and age.
Boreas 18: 87-88 [a comment on paper No. 64, above].

 

 

 

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