Seafloor evidence for ice shelf flow across the Alaska-Beaufort margin of the Arctic Ocean

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1047-1063

  Engels, Jennifer L ^a   Edwards, Margo H ^b   Polyak, Leonid ^c   Johnson, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Glaciogenic bedforms; Ice shelves; Pleistocene; Sidescan

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; ICE SHELF; SEA FLOORS;

BEDFORM; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; ICE FLOW; ICE SHELF; PLEISTOCENE; SEAFLOOR; SIDESCAN SONAR; SONAR IMAGERY;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 46749142115     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1601     Document Type: Article

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