Modelling of the thermal conditions at the Greenland ice sheet margin during Holocene deglaciation: Boundary conditions for moraine formation

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 83-99

  Van Tatenhove, Frank G M ^a   Huybrechts, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; MORAINE; PROGLACIAL AREA;

GREENLAND, WEST GREENLAND, GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 0030434496     PISSN: 04353684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/04353676.1996.11880454     Document Type: Article

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