Late Quaternary submarine bedforms and ice-sheet flow in Gerlache Strait and on the adjacent continental shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 397-407

  Evans, Jeffrey ^a   Dowdeswell, Julian A ^a   Ó Cofaigh, Colm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet; Ice flow pattern; Onset zone; Palaeo ice stream; Subglacial bedforms

Indexed keywords

ICE STREAM; LAST GLACIATION; QUATERNARY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; GERLACHE STRAIT; WEST ANTARCTICA;

APIS;

EID: 3142634621     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.831     Document Type: Article

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