Integrated acoustic and coring investigation of glacigenic deposits in Spitsbergen fjords

Polar Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-110

  Plassen, Liv ^a   Vorren, Tore O ^b   Forwick, Matthias ^b  

^a Polar Environmental Centre   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION; TIDEWATER GLACIER;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 3042779541     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-8369.2004.tb00132.x     Document Type: Article

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