Estuaries beneath ice sheets

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1159-1162

  Horgan, Huw J ^a   Alley, Richard B ^b   Christianson, Knut ^c   Jacobel, Robert W ^c   Anandakrishnan, Sridhar ^b   Muto, Atsuhiro ^b   Beem, Lucas H ^d   Siegfried, Matthew R ^e  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ST OLAF COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS; HYDROLOGIC SYSTEMS; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; ROSS ICE SHELVES; SUBGLACIAL CHANNELS; SUBGLACIAL HYDROLOGY; SUBGLACIAL LAKES; SURFACE ELEVATIONS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RIVERS;

ESTUARIES;

ESTUARY; GEOPHYSICS; HYDROLOGY; ICE SHEET; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; TROUGH;

ANTARCTICA; ROSS ICE SHELF; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA; WHILLANS ICE STREAM;

EID: 84885111204     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34654.1     Document Type: Article

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