A groundwater vortex hypothesis for mima-like mounds, Laramie Basin, Wyoming

Geomorphology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 295-317

  Reider, Richard G ^a   Huss, Joseph M ^a   Miller, Timothy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER VORTEX; MIMA; VORTEX HYPOTHESIS;

USA, WYOMING, LARAMIE BASIN;

EID: 0030467787     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-555X(95)00142-R     Document Type: Article

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