Near-surface seismic reflection profiling of the Matanuska Glacier, Alaska

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 147-156

  Baker, Gregory S ^a   Strasser, Jeffrey C ^b   Evenson, Edward B ^c   Lawson, Daniel E ^d   Pyke, Kendra ^a   Bigl, Robert A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b AUGUSTANA COLLEGE   (United States)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

^e Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GLACIERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REFLECTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; DEBRIS; ICE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

SEISMIC REFLECTION; COMMON-MIDPOINT SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; GLACIOLOGY; HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; LONGITUDINAL AXIS; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; TEMPERATE GLACIERS;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION;

BASAL ICE; GLACIER; ICE THICKNESS; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ALASKA; MATANUSKA GLACIER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037217530     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1543202     Document Type: Article

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