Dating Antarctic blue ice areas using a novel ice flow model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2003, Pages

  Grinsted, Aslak ^a,b   Moore, John ^a   Spikes, Vandy Blue ^c   Sinisalo, Anna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIERS; METEORITES; RHEOLOGY;

PALEOCLIMATE;

ICE;

DATING METHOD; GLACIOLOGY; ICE FLOW; MASS BALANCE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 17744415043     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017957     Document Type: Article

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