Laurentide ice streaming on the Canadian Shield: A conflict with the soft-bedded ice stream paradigm?

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 347-350

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canadian Shield; Ice stream; Laurentide ice sheet

Indexed keywords

ICE STREAMING;

DISINTEGRATION; LAKES; ROCKS;

ICE;

ICE STREAM; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; THERMOMECHANICS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

CANADA;

EID: 0037965612     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0347:LISOTC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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