Internal layer tracing and age-depth relationship from the ice divide toward Jakobshavn, Greenland

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 471-475

  Legarsky, J J ^a   Gao, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Greenland; Internal layers

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ICE; RADAR IMAGING;

AGE DEPTH RELATIONSHIP; FLIGHT LINES; INTERNAL LAYERS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 33750580763     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2006.877749     Document Type: Article

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