The dubawnt lake palaeo-ice stream: Evidence for dynamic ice sheet behaviour on the Canadian Shield and insights regarding the controls on ice-stream location and vigour

Boreas

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 263-279

  Stokes, Chris R ^a   Clark, Chris D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE STREAM; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; WISCONSINAN;

CANADA; DUBAWNT LAKE; NUNAVUT;

EID: 0037717164     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2003.tb01442.x     Document Type: Article

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