Dynamics of the North American Ice Sheet Complex during its inception and build-up to the Last Glacial Maximum

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 50, Issue , 2012, Pages 86-104

  Stokes, Chris R ^a   Tarasov, Lev ^b   Dyke, Arthur S ^b,c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ice sheet; Ice streams; Laurentide Ice Sheet; North American Ice Complex; Numerical modelling

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION DATA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; DECAY PHASIS; DEGLACIAL; DEGLACIATIONS; EUSTATIC SEA LEVEL; FLOW FEATURES; GLOBAL SEA LEVELS; ICE COVER; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAMS; INTERGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE QUATERNARY; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; MASS LOSS; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOURS; NORTH AMERICAN; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; RAPID GROWTH; SECOND PHASE; SOFT SEDIMENTS; SYSTEMS MODELS;

DYNAMICS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; NUMERICAL MODELS; SEA LEVEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ICE;

DEGLACIATION; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TOPOGRAPHY;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84864801018     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.07.009     Document Type: Article

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