Glacimarine sedimentary processes and depositional environments in an embayment fed by West Greenland ice streams

Marine Geology

Volumn 311-314, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-16

  Hogan, K A ^a   Dowdeswell, J A ^a   OCofaigh C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic units; Deglaciation; Disko Bay; Glacimarine sedimentation; Jakobshavn ice stream; Subglacial sediment flux

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATES; ACOUSTIC CHARACTERS; ANTARCTIC ICE STREAM; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEGLACIAL; DEGLACIATIONS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DISKO BAY; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICE STREAMS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RAIN-OUT; RAPID TRANSITIONS; SEDIMENT FLUX; SEDIMENTARY PROCESS; SEDIMENTATION RATES; STUDY AREAS; SUBGLACIAL SEDIMENT; UPPER-END; WEST GREENLAND;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SEDIMENTS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEGLACIATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; FJORD; GLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; GLACIER RETREAT; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; ICE MARGIN; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAM; ICEBERG; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MELTWATER; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ARCTIC; DISKO BAY; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; JAKOBSHAVN GLACIER; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 84862023855     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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