Simple models for late Holocene and present-day Patagonian glacier fluctuations and predictions of a geodetically detectable isostatic response

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 601-624

  Ivins, Erik R ^a   James, Thomas S ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crustal deformation; Geodesy; Glacial rebound; Hydrology; Mantle rheology

Indexed keywords

GEODESY; GLACIAL REBOUND; GLACIER DYNAMICS; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; ISOSTASY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032719992     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1999.00899.x     Document Type: Article

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