Stick-slip statistical mechanics at the bed of a glacier

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 2073-2076

  Bahr, David B ^a   Rundle, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOPHYSICS; HYSTERESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

BASAL WATER PRESSURE; GLACIER FLOW; STICK SLIP SLIDER BLOCK MODEL;

GLACIERS;

BASAL DEFORMATION; GLACIER BED; GLACIER FLOW; STICK-SLIP;

EID: 0030207041     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02069     Document Type: Article

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