Structure and composition of a tidewater glacier push moraine, Svalbard, revealed by DC resistivity profiling

Boreas

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 176-186

  Kristensen, Lene ^a   Juliussen, Håvard ^a   Christiansen, Hanne H ^a   Humlum, Ole ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREVASSE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GLACIER SURGE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; PUSH MORAINE; TIDEWATER GLACIER;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 62649108874     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2008.00045.x     Document Type: Article

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