Signature of ice streaming in Bjørnøyrenna, Polar North Atlantic, through the pleistocene and implications for ice-stream dynamics

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 50, Issue 52, 2009, Pages 17-26

  Andreassen, Karin ^a   Winsborrow, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; FLOW PATTERN; GEOMORPHOLOGY; ICE STREAM; PLEISTOCENE; SEISMIC DATA; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARCTIC; BJORNOYA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 68149099037     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756409789624238     Document Type: Article

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