Ice sheets viewed from the ocean: The contribution of marine science to understanding modern and past ice sheets

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1980, 2012, Pages 5512-5539

  Cofaigh, Colm Ó ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continental margin; Glacimarine processes and sediments; Ice sheets; Ice shelves and marine terminating outlet glaciers; Ice streams; Multi beam swath bathymetry

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; GEOPHYSICS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELVES; ICE STREAMS; SWATH BATHYMETRY;

GLACIERS;

EID: 84870031936     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0398     Document Type: Conference Paper

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