Isotopic composition of vent discharge from the Matanuska Glacier, Alaska: Implications for the origin of basal ice

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 337, Issue , 1999, Pages 37-44

  Titus, Daniel D ^a,f   Larson, Grahame J ^a   Strasser, Jeffrey C ^b   Lawson, Daniel E ^c   Evenson, Edward B ^d   Alley, Richard B ^e  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUGUSTANA COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^d LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HRP Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL ICE; GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; RAINFALL RUNOFF; RESERVOIR MODELING; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TWO-COMPONENT; VENT DISCHARGE;

ICE;

BASAL ICE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MELTWATER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT;

ALASKA; MATANUSKA GLACIER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645844828     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2337-X.37     Document Type: Article

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