Northwest outlet channels of Lake Agassiz, isostatic tilting and a magrating continental drainage divide, Saskatchewan, Canada

Geomorphology

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 57-73

  Fisher, Timothy G ^a   Souch, Catherine ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE NETWORK; GLACIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; ISOSTASY;

CANADA;

EID: 0032432780     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(98)00028-2     Document Type: Article

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