Glacial flow of floating marine ice in "Snowball Earth"

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Goodman, Jason C ^a   Pierrehumbert, Raymond T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Glaciation; Neoproterozoic; Paleoclimate; Sea ice; Snowball Earth

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIATION; ICE FLOW; PALEOCLIMATE; PROTEROZOIC; SEA ICE;

EID: 1642562807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jc001471     Document Type: Article

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