Sedimentary environment and glacial history of the northwest passage (Canadian arctic archipelago) reconstructed from high-resolution acoustic data

Polarforschung

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 65-80

  Niessen, Frank ^a   Matthiessen, Jens ^a   Stein, Rüdiger ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; ARCHIPELAGO; BEDROCK; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEBRIS FLOW; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DEGLACIATION; DIAMICTON; ECHO SOUNDER; EVENT STRATIGRAPHY; GLACIAL DEBRIS; GLACIAL HISTORY; HOLOCENE; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MORAINE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SHELF BREAK; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; LANCASTER SOUND; NUNAVUT;

EID: 78149317981     PISSN: 00322490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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