Antarctic subglacial topography and ice-sheet evolution

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 646-660

  Siegert, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Cenozoic; Glaciation; Landscape evolution

Indexed keywords

EROSION; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEA ICE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ICE SHEET; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; SUBGLACIAL TOPOGRAPHY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

EROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEA ICE; TOPOGRAPHY;

BEDFORM; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIER FLOW; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 42049088035     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1670     Document Type: Review

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