Morainal-bank sediment budgets and their influence on the stability of tidewater termini of valley glaciers entering Glacier Bay, Alaska, U.S.A.

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 22, Issue , 1996, Pages 211-216

  Hunter, Lewis E ^a   Powell, Ross D ^b   Lawson, Daniel E ^a  

^a Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL HISTORY; GROUNDING LINE; ICEBERG; SEDIMENT YIELD; VALLEY GLACIER;

USA, ALASKA, GLACIER BAY;

EID: 0030434494     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/1996aog22-1-211-216     Document Type: Article

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