Far-flung moraines: Exploring the feedback of glacial erosion on the evolution of glacier length

Geomorphology

Volumn 179, Issue , 2012, Pages 269-285

  Anderson, Robert S ^a   Dühnforth, Miriam ^a,b   Colgan, William ^a   Anderson, Leif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpine landscapes; Flowline model; Glacial extent; Glaciers; LGM; Moraine

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; FLOW MODELING; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MORAINE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84870292660     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.08.018     Document Type: Article

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