Introduction to the Bering Glacier System, Alaska/Canada: Early observations and scientific investigations, and key geographic features

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 462, Issue , 2010, Pages 13-42

  Molnia, Bruce F ^a   Post, Austin ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION; SCIENTIFIC STUDIES;

GLACIERS;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; GLACIER; GLACIOLOGY;

ALASKA; BERING GLACIER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650937584     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2462(02)     Document Type: Article

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