Sediment deformation and basal dynamics beneath a glacier surge front: Bakaninbreen, Svalbard

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 24, Issue , 1997, Pages 21-26

  Porter, Philip R ^a,c   Murray, Tavi ^a   Dowdeswell, Julian A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL DYNAMICS; GLACIER FRONT; SUBGLACIAL DEFORMATION;

SVALBARD, SPITSBERGEN, BAKANINBREEN;

EID: 0031433376     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/s0260305500011873     Document Type: Article

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