Chemical and isotopic profiles from snow pits and shallow firn cores on Campbell Glacier, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 27, Issue , 1998, Pages 679-684

  Gragnani, R ^a   Smiraglia, C ^b   Stenni, B ^b,c   Torcini, S ^a  

^a ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FIRN; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; SNOW;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0032430434     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/1998aog27-1-679-684     Document Type: Article

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