Evidence for a recently abandoned shear margin adjacent to ice stream B2, Antarctica, from ice-penetrating radar measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B6, 2000, Pages 13409-13422

  Clarke, Ted S ^a   Liu, Chen ^a   Lord, Neal E ^a   Bentley, Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE MECHANICS; ICE SHEET; RADAR;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0034631222     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jb900037     Document Type: Article

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