Moraine ridges formed from subglacial frozen-on sediment slabs and their differentiation from push moraines

Boreas

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-64

  Krüger, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORAINE RIDGE; PUSH MORAINE; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT;

ICELAND, MYRDALSJOKULL;

EID: 0030455218     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.1996.tb00835.x     Document Type: Article

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