Forms, response times and variability of relative sea-level curves, glaciated North America

Geomorphology

Volumn 32, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 315-333

  Dyke, Arthur S ^a   Peltier, W R ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cordilleran tectonics; Innuitian; Isostasy; Laurentide; Uplift

Indexed keywords

ISOSTASY; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; POSTGLACIAL REBOUND; SEA LEVEL; UPLIFT;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0034016893     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(99)00102-6     Document Type: Article

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