A continental shelf sedimentary record of Little Ice Age to modern glacial dynamics: Bering Glacier, Alaska

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 86, Issue C, 2014, Pages 141-156

  Jaeger, John M ^a   Kramer, Branden ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Glacier; Continental shelf; Glacial surge; Gulf of Alaska; Little Ice Age; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877107502     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: 18736955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2013.03.011     Document Type: Article

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