Ultra-rapid landscape response and sediment yield following glacier retreat, Icy Bay, southern Alaska

Geomorphology

Volumn 78, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 207-221

  Meigs, Andrew ^a   Krugh, William C ^a   Davis, Kelsay ^a   Bank, Greg ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Deglaciation; Erosion rates; Landscape evolution; Paraglacial; Sediment yield

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; EROSION RATE; FAN DELTA; FJORD; GLACIER; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; SEDIMENT YIELD; TRIBUTARY;

EID: 33746905971     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.01.029     Document Type: Article

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