Reconstructing the last Irish Ice Sheet 1: changing flow geometries and ice flow dynamics deciphered from the glacial landform record

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 27-28, 2009, Pages 3085-3100

  Greenwood, Sarah L ^a   Clark, Chris D ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED FORMS; COHERENT SYSTEM; COMPLEX FLOW; CROSS-CUTTING; DATA-DRIVEN; FLOW CONFIGURATIONS; FLOW GEOMETRIES; GLACIAL LANDFORMS; GLACIAL LINEATION; ICE FLOW; ICE FLOW DYNAMICS; ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET MODELS; ICE STREAMS; ICE-SHEET FLOW; ICE-SHEET RETREAT; IRELAND; LOCAL SCALE; NORTHERN IRELAND; SPATIAL PROPERTIES; TIME-SCALES;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; LANDFORMS; PAPER SHEETING; STREAM FLOW;

ICE;

BEDFORM; CHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIOLOGY; ICE FLOW; LAST ICE SHEET; RECONSTRUCTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70450278795     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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