Fabric along the NEEM ice core, Greenland, and its comparison with GRIP and NGRIP ice cores

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1129-1138

  Montagnat, M ^a,b   Azuma, N ^c   Dahl Jensen, D ^d   Eichler, J ^e,f   Fujita, S ^g   Gillet Chaulet, F ^a,b   Kipfstuhl, S ^e   Samyn, D ^c   Svensson, A ^d   Weikusat, I ^e  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; ICE CORE; NUMERICAL MODEL; VISCOSITY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84903758247     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-1129-2014     Document Type: Article

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