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Basal Traction Processes

Basal Traction Processes is a glacial sediment transport mechanism, distinguished by the shear stress exerted at the base of a glacier that mobilizes and entrains subglacial sediments through direct ice-bed contact and frictional forces.

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Boulder shapes and grain‐size distributions of debris as indicators of transport paths through a glacier and till genesis

G. S. Boulton · Sedimentology · 1978 · 529 citations

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WESTERN UNITED STATES EXTENSION: How the West was Widened

Leslie J. Sonder, Craig H. Jones · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · 1999 · 255 citations

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Seasonal to decadal scale variations in the surface velocity of Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland: Observation and model‐based analysis

Ian Joughin, Ben Smith, Ian M. Howat et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2012 · 198 citations

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A variationally derived, depth-integrated approximation to a higher-order glaciological flow model

Daniel Goldberg · Journal of Glaciology · 2011 · 154 citations · Full text

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Evolution of orogenic wedges and continental plateaux: insights from crustal thermal-mechanical models overlying subducting mantle lithosphere

Olivier Vanderhaeghe, Sergei Medvedev, Philippe Fullsack et al. · Geophysical Journal International · 2003 · 131 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. AJ
    A. J. Payne

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 245 citations

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  2. OV
    O. V. Sergienko

    Princeton University, United States

    4 publications · 221 citations

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  3. DG
    Daniel Goldberg

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 331 citations

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  4. SC
    Stephen Cornford

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 213 citations

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  5. CH
    Christina Hulbe

    University of Otago, New Zealand

    2 publications · 65 citations

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Institutions

85

  1. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    290 citations

  2. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    12 publications

    681 citations

  3. Planetary Science Institute

    Tucson, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    366 citations

  4. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    330 citations

  5. Dartmouth College

    Hanover, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    296 citations

  6. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    153 citations

  7. British Antarctic Survey

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    580 citations

  8. Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling

    Leeds, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    552 citations

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  1. Geophysical Research Letters

    7 publications · 259 citations

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  2. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 6 publications · 393 citations

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  3. Annals of Glaciology

    5 publications · 293 citations

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  4. ˜The œcryosphere

    4 publications · 228 citations

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  5. Journal of Glaciology

    4 publications · 218 citations

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