An inter-ice-stream glaciated margin: Submarine landforms and a geomorphic model based on marine-geophysical data from Svalbard

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 1647-1665

  Ottesen, Dag ^a   Dowdeswell, Julian A ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DEGLACIATIONS; FLOW DIRECTION; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; GLACIAL ICE; GLACIAL LANDFORMS; GLACIATED MARGINS; GROUNDING-ZONE WEDGES; HOLOCENES; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAMS; LITTLE ICE AGE; LOW-AMPLITUDE; MODEL-BASED; RAIN-OUT; SEA FLOOR; SHELF EDGES; SUBGLACIAL SEDIMENT; SUBMARINE LANDFORMS; SVALBARD; TERMINAL MORAINES; TRANSVERSE RIDGE; WATER FLOWS;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; HYDRAULICS; LANDFORMS; MORPHOLOGY; PARALLEL FLOW; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBMARINES;

ICE;

BASIN FILL; DEGLACIATION; FJORD; HOLOCENE; HUMMOCKY CROSS-STRATIFICATION; ICE RETREAT; ICE SHEET; LITTLE ICE AGE; MELTWATER; MORAINE; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT; WEICHSELIAN;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 76249091049     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26467.1     Document Type: Article

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