Geospatial analysis of controls on subglacial bedform morphometry in the New York Drumlin Field - Implications for Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1126-1135

  Hess, Dale P ^a   Briner, Jason P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Geospatial analysis; Laurentide Ice Sheet; New York Drumlin Field; Subglacial bedform morphometry

Indexed keywords

BASAL SLIDING; BED FORMS; DIGITAL ELEVATION DATA; EFFECTIVE PRESSURE; GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS; ICE FLOW; ICE STREAMS; ICE VELOCITY; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; MORPHOMETRY; NEW YORK; NEW YORK DRUMLIN FIELD; NEW YORK STATE; PREDICTIVE MODELS; SUBGLACIAL BEDFORM MORPHOMETRY;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ELONGATION; GLACIERS;

ICE;

BEDFORM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DRUMLIN; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIOLOGY; ICE FLOW; ICE STREAM; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MORPHOMETRY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

APPALACHIANS; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69249230996     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1803     Document Type: Article

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