Subglacial water-sheet floods, drumlins and ice-sheet lobes

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 45, Issue 150, 1999, Pages 201-213

  Shoemaker, E M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUMLIN; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; GLACIAL LAKE; ICE SHEET; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

GREAT LAKES; MICHIGAN-GREEN BAY BASIN; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032735670     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/s0022143000001702     Document Type: Article

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