Can Relict Crevasse Plumes on Antarctic Ice Shelves Reveal a History of Ice-Stream Fluctuation?
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- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by International Glaciological Society in Annals of Glaciology
- Vol. 11, 77-82
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260305500006364
Abstract
Configurations of relict surface-crevasse bands and medial moraines that emanate from the shear margins of ice streams are simulated, using a numerical model of an ideal rectangular ice shelf to determine their potential for recording a past ice-stream discharge chronology.Keywords
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