Palaeo-ice streams in the Foxe/Baffin sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 1313-1331

  De Angelis, Hernán ^a   Kleman, Johan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; MAPPING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

GLACIOLOGICAL INVERSION SCHEME; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; TEMPORAL CHANGES;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; ICE STREAM; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SONAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; FOXE BASIN; HUDSON STRAIT; MELVILLE PENINSULA; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

EID: 34249947797     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.02.010     Document Type: Article

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