Flow and retreat of the Late Quaternary Pine Island-Thwaites palaeo-ice stream, West Antarctica

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Graham, Alastair G C ^a   Larter, Robert D ^a   Gohl, Karsten ^b   Dowdeswell, Julian A ^c   Hillenbrand, Claus Dieter ^a   Smith, James A ^a   Evans, Jeffrey ^d   Kuhn, Gerhard ^b   Deen, Tara ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER FLOW; GLACIER RETREAT; GROUNDING LINE; ICE FLOW; ICE MARGIN; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; ICE STREAM; ICE THICKNESS; QUATERNARY;

ANTARCTICA; PINE ISLAND GLACIER; THWAITES GLACIER; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 77956071540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JF001482     Document Type: Article

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