Recent High-Arctic glacial sediment redistribution: A process perspective using airborne lidar

Geomorphology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-39

  Irvine Fynn, T D L ^a   Barrand, N E ^b,e   Porter, P R ^c   Hodson, A J ^a   Murray, T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic; Lidar; Moraine degradation; Sediment flux; Terrain relaxation processes

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; DEGLACIATION; GLACIAL DEBRIS; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; ICE CORE; ICE THICKNESS; LIDAR; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PUSH MORAINE; REWORKING; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT YIELD; STOCHASTICITY;

ARCTIC; MIDRE LOVENBREEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 78349308440     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.08.012     Document Type: Article

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