Ice-stream flow switching during deglaciation of the southwestern Barents Sea

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 275-290

  Winsborrow, Monica C M ^a   Stokes, Chris R ^b   Andreassen, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; BARENTS SEA; BATHYMETRIC DATA; BED TOPOGRAPHY; CONSTRAINED SOURCE; CONTINENTAL ICE SHEET; DEGLACIATIONS; GREENLAND; GROUNDING LINE; ICE STREAMS; ICE VELOCITY; LONG-TERM BEHAVIOR; NESTED SEQUENCES; PAPER DOCUMENTS; SHORT TIME SCALE; UNDERLYING CAUSE;

ICE CONTROL; STREAM FLOW;

ICE;

BATHYMETRY; DEGLACIATION; GLACIER; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAM; MORAINE; STREAMFLOW; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; WEICHSELIAN;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; GREENLAND;

EID: 84863502220     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30416.1     Document Type: Article

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