Rapid ice sheet retreat triggered by ice stream debuttressing: Evidence from the North Sea

Geology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 355-358

  Sejrup, Hans Petter ^a   Clark, Chris D ^b   Hjelstuen, Berit O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; SEA ICE; SEISMOLOGY;

GEOLOGICAL HISTORY; GLACIAL LANDFORMS; GROUNDING LINE; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; ICE-SHEET RETREAT; OCEAN CIRCULATION; SHALLOW SEISMIC;

ICE;

GLACIAL LANDFORM; ICE RETREAT; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAM; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT CORE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; NORWEGIAN CHANNEL;

EID: 84966351299     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G37652.1     Document Type: Article

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