Dilatant till layer near the onset of streaming flow of Ice Stream C, West Antarctica, determined by AVO (amplitude vs offset) analysis
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Glaciology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0260-3055,1727-5644
DOI: 10.3189/172756403781816329