Snapshots of the Greenland ice sheet configuration in the Pliocene to early Pleistocene

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 57, Issue 205, 2011, Pages 871-880

  Solgaard, Anne M ^a,b   Reeh, Niels ^c   Japsen, Peter ^a   Nielsen, Tove ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MODELING; GIS; ICE CAP; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 80655135667     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/002214311798043816     Document Type: Article

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