Subglacial conditions under the last ice sheet in northwest Germany: Ice-bed separation and enhanced basal sliding?

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 737-751

  Piotrowski, Jan A ^a   Tulaczyk, Slawek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL ICE; ICE THICKNESS; LAST ICE SHEET; SLIDING; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; WEICHSELIAN;

GERMANY;

EID: 0033134796     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(98)00042-0     Document Type: Article

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