Integrated research on mountain glaciers: Current status, priorities and future prospects

Geomorphology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 158-171

  Owen, Lewis A ^a   Thackray, Glenn ^b   Anderson, Robert S ^c   Briner, Jason ^d   Kaufman, Darrell ^e   Roe, Gerard ^f   Pfeffer, William ^c   Yi, Chaolu ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^e NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Geochronology; Glaciation; Glaciers; Glaciology; Modeling; Mountains

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIATION; GLACIER; GLACIOLOGY; MODELING; MOUNTAIN;

EID: 56049102600     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.04.019     Document Type: Article

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