Surface and bed morphology of hansbreen, a tidewater glacier in Spitsbergen

Polish Polar Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 111-138

  Grabiec, Mariusz ^a   Jania, Jacek A ^a   Puczko, Dariusz ^b   Kolondra, Leszek ^a   Budzik, Tomasz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arctic; Bedrock topography; Glaciology; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIOLOGY; GPS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; TIDEWATER GLACIER; TOPOGRAPHY;

ARCTIC; HANSBREEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84863797864     PISSN: 01380338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10183-012-0010-7     Document Type: Article

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