Size, shape and spatial arrangement of mega-scale glacial lineations from a large and diverse dataset

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1432-1448

  Spagnolo, Matteo ^a   Clark, Chris D ^b   Ely, Jeremy C ^b   Stokes, Chris R ^c   Anderson, John B ^d   Andreassen, Karin ^e   Graham, Alastair G C ^f   King, Edward C ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glacial bedform; Ice stream; Morphometry; MSGL

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS;

BED FORMS; ICE STREAMS; INSTABILITY THEORY; MECHANISM OF FORMATION; MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY; MSGL; SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS;

ICE;

BEDFORM; DATA SET; DRUMLIN; FORMATION MECHANISM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL LANDFORM; ICE STREAM; LINEATION; MORPHOMETRY; SHAPE; SIZE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANTARCTICA; CANADA; NORWAY;

EID: 84906781840     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3532     Document Type: Article

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