Identification and preservation of landforms diagnostic of past ice-sheet activity on continental shelves from three-dimensional seismic evidence

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 359-362

  Dowdeswell, Julian A ^a   Ottesen, Dag ^b   Rise, Leif ^b   Craig, Jonathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c ENI S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continental shelves; Glacial landforms; Ice ages; Ice streams; Swath bathymetry; Three dimensional seismics

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; ICE AGES; PALEOSURFACES;

BATHYMETRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; LANDFORMS; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GLACIAL LANDFORM; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAM; ICEBERG; OCEAN BASIN; PLEISTOCENE; PUSH MORAINE; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN MARGIN [NORWEGIAN SEA]; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 34147100156     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23200A.1     Document Type: Article

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