Retreat signature of a polar ice stream: Sub-glacial geomorphic features and sediments from the Ross Sea, Antarctica

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 203, Issue , 2002, Pages 277-304

  Shipp, Stephanie S ^a   Wellner, Julia S ^a   Anderson, John B ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUBMARINE TROUGH;

ROSS SEA;

EID: 0038261900     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2002.203.01.15     Document Type: Article

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