Modelling North American palaeo-subglacial lakes and their meltwater drainage pathways

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 375, Issue , 2013, Pages 13-33

  Livingstone, Stephen J ^a   Clark, Chris D ^a   Tarasov, Lev ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Geomorphology; Laurentide Ice Sheet; Meltwater drainage pathways; Numerical ice sheet modelling; Palaeo subglacial lake; Subglacial lake

Indexed keywords

CANADIAN ARCHIPELAGO; CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; MELTWATER DRAINAGE PATHWAYS; SEAFLOOR BATHYMETRY; SUBGLACIAL LAKES; SUBGLACIAL MELTWATER;

FORECASTING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

LAKES;

CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET; DRAINAGE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; ICE MARGIN; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LAST GLACIATION; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUTURE ZONE; TOPOGRAPHY;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; GREAT LAKES BASIN; HUDSON BAY;

EID: 84881545478     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.017     Document Type: Article

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