Seasonal-scale abrasion and quarrying patterns from a two-dimensional ice-flow model coupled to distributed and channelized subglacial drainage

Geomorphology

Volumn 219, Issue , 2014, Pages 176-191

  Beaud, Flavien ^a   Flowers, Gwenn E ^a   Pimentel, Sam ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abrasion; Glacial erosion; Ice flow modeling; Quarrying; Sliding law; Subglacial hydrology

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; COULOMB CRITERION; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; POWER LAW; QUARRYING; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84901645724     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.04.036     Document Type: Article

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