Preservation of basal-ice sediment texture in ice-sheet moraines

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 1255-1258

  Knight, Peter G ^a   Patterson, Carrie J ^b   Waller, Richard I ^c   Jones, Alison P ^d   Robinson, Zoe P ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Minnesota Geological Survey   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL ICE; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; ICE SHEET; MORAINE; PRESERVATION;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0033859890     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(00)00091-3     Document Type: Article

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