Submarine end moraines on the continental shelf off NE Greenland - Implications for Lateglacial dynamics

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1069-1077

  Winkelmann, Daniel ^a   Jokat, Wilfried ^b   Jensen, Laura ^b   Schenke, Hans Werner ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; ACOUSTIC SURVEY; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DATA SETS; DEGLACIATIONS; DYNAMIC BEHAVIOURS; END MORAINE; GEOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; GROUNDING LINE; HOLOCENES; ICE STREAMS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; LATEGLACIAL; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; QUATERNARY SCIENCE; SEDIMENT RIDGES; STEEP SLOPE; WATER DEPTH;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HYDRAULICS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURVEYS;

ICE;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; DATA SET; GEOPHYSICS; HOLOCENE; ICE MARGIN; ICE SHEET; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LAST DEGLACIATION; LATE GLACIAL; MORAINE; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTATION; SUBMARINE; TROUGH; WATER DEPTH;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 77950690768     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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