Glaciohydraulic supercooling: The process and its significance

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 577-588

  Cook, Simon J ^a   Waller, Richard I ^a   Knight, Peter G ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basal ice; Glacial erosion and sedimentation; Glacial geomorphology; Glacier dynamics; Glacier hydrology; Glaciohydraulic supercooling; Subglacial processes

Indexed keywords

BASAL ICE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; GLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; QUATERNARY; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUPERCOOLING;

EID: 33947372874     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133306071141     Document Type: Article

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