Global glacial isostasy and the surface of the ice-age earth: The ICE-5G (VM2) model and GRACE

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue , 2004, Pages 111-149

  Peltier, W R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glacial isostasy; Ice age ice sheets; Mantle viscosity; Paleotopography

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GEOMETRY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING;

GLACIATION; ICE COVER;

GEOLOGY;

GLACIAL HISTORY; ICE SHEET; INSOLATION; ISOSTASY; PALEOCLIMATE; PERIODICITY; QUATERNARY;

EID: 1242294089     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.32.082503.144359     Document Type: Review

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