Water and sediment outbursts from advanced Franz Jozef Glacier, New Zealand

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1081-1096

  Davies, Timothy R H ^a   Smart, Chris C ^b   Turnbull, Jill M ^c  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Forefield deposits; Glaciers; J kulhlaups; Storm rainfall; Subglacial sediment

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; GLACIERS; GRAVEL; SEDIMENTS;

SEDIMENT DEPOSITS;

LANDFORMS;

CLASSIFICATION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; JOKULHLAUP; OUTBURST; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0012464691     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.515     Document Type: Article

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