Large subglacial lake beneath the Laurentide Ice Sheet inferred from sedimentary sequences

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 563-566

  Christoffersen, Poul ^a   Tulaczyk, Slawek ^b   Wattrus, Nigel J ^c   Peterson, Justin ^b   Quintana Krupinski, Nadine ^b   Clark, Chris D ^d   Sjunneskog, Charlotte ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal water; Hydrology; Ice sheet; Sediment; Subglacial lake

Indexed keywords

BASAL WATER; HYDROLOGY; ICE SHEET; SEDIMENT; SUBGLACIAL LAKE;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; GLACIERS; ICE; SEDIMENTATION; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

LAKES;

GLACIAL LAKE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT;

CANADA; GREAT SLAVE LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

EID: 50349098664     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24628A.1     Document Type: Article

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