Climate-controlled glacial erosion in the unconsolidated sediments of Northwestern Europe, based on a genetic model for tunnel valley formation

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 327-340

  Van Dijke, J J ^a,b   Veldkamp, A ^a,b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deglaciation; Elsterian; Pleistocene ice sheets; Saalian; Subglacial hydrology; Tunnel valley

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; SUBGLACIAL HYDROLOGY; TUNNEL VALLEY;

EUROPE;

EID: 0030456507     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199604)21:4<327::AID-ESP540>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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