Role of climate oscillations in determining ice-margin position: Hypothesis, examples, and implications

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 337, Issue , 1999, Pages 193-203

  Lowell, Thomas V ^a   Hayward, Rosalyn K ^a   Denton, George H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPANSION; GLACIERS;

CINCINNATI; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; END MORAINE; GREENLAND ICE CORES; ICE SHEET; PALEOCLIMATE PROXY; PRIMARY MECHANISM; TIME-SCALES;

ICE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; EXPANSION; GLACIER ADVANCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ICE CORE; ICE MARGIN; MORAINE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

CINCINNATI; COLORADO; CUBA; DES MOINES; IOWA; OHIO; TODD CREEK; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84870926280     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2337-X.193     Document Type: Article

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