Coupling between a glacier and a soft bed: I. A relation between effective pressure and local shear stress determined from till elasticity

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 45, Issue 149, 1999, Pages 31-40

  Iverson, Neal R ^a   Baker, Robert W ^b   Hooke, Roger LeB ^c   Hanson, Brian ^d   Jansson, Peter ^e  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER FALLS   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; GLACIER FLOW; GLACIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SHEAR STRESS; TILL;

KEBNEKAISE; STORGLACIAREN; SWEDEN;

EID: 0032792785     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022143000003014     Document Type: Article

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