A continuum-mechanical formulation for shallow polythermal ice sheets

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1726, 1997, Pages 921-974

  Greve, Ralf ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 3142601618     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1997.0050     Document Type: Article

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