Steep reverse bed slope at the grounding line of the Weddell Sea sector in West Antarctica

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 393-396

  Ross, Neil ^a   Bingham, Robert G ^b   Corr, Hugh F J ^c   Ferraccioli, Fausto ^c   Jordan, Tom A ^c   Le Brocq, Anne ^d   Rippin, David M ^e   Young, Duncan ^f   Blankenship, Donald D ^f   Siegert, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FJORD; GROUNDING LINE; ICE MARGIN; ICE SHEET; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEA LEVEL; SLOPE ANGLE; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOPOGRAPHY;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84861685143     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1468     Document Type: Article

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