Ice thickness and isostatic imbalances in the Ross Embayment, West Antarctica: Model results

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 42, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 265-278

  Parizek, Byron R ^a   Alley, Richard B ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Isostasy; Numerical models; West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GLACIAL REBOUND; GLACIOISOSTASY; GROUNDING LINE; ICE STREAM; ICE THICKNESS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ANTARCTICA; ROSS EMBAYMENT; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 3242739522     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2003.09.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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