Overconsolidated section on the Yermak Plateau, Arctic Ocean: Ice sheet grounding prior to ca. 660 ka?

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 147-150

  Flower, Benjamin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTATION;

CONTINUOUS SEDIMENTATION; GLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; ICE SHEET HISTORY; LATE QUATERNARY; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; OVERCONSOLIDATION; YERMAK PLATEAUX; ARCTIC OCEAN; BULK DENSITY; WATER DEPTH;

GLACIERS;

BULK DENSITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OVERCONSOLIDATION; ARCTIC ICE SHEET; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; ICE SHEET GROUNDING; ICE SHEETS; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; YERMAK PLATEAU;

EID: 0030776082     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0147:OSOTYP>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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