Deglaciation of the western margin of the Barents Sea Ice Sheet - A swath bathymetric and sub-bottom seismic study from the Kveithola Trough

Marine Geology

Volumn 279, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 141-147

  Rebesco, Michele ^a   Liu, Yanguang ^a,d   Camerlenghi, Angelo ^b   Winsborrow, Monica ^c   Laberg, Jan Sverre ^c   Caburlotto, Andrea ^a   Diviacco, Paolo ^a   Accettella, Daniela ^a   Sauli, Chiara ^a   Wardell, Nigel ^a   Tomini, Isabella ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Barents Sea; Deglaciation; Grounding zone wedge; Ice stream; Mega scale glacial lineation

Indexed keywords

BARENTS SEA; DEGLACIATION; GLACIAL LINEATION; GROUNDING-ZONE WEDGE; ICE STREAM;

BATHYMETRY; GLACIERS; HYDRAULICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BATHYMETRY; BIOACCUMULATION; DEGLACIATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAM; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RESOLUTION; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC METHOD; SURVEY; TOPOGRAPHY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 78650822930     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.10.018     Document Type: Article

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