Deglacial meltwater drainage and glaciodynamics: Inferences from Laurentide eskers, Canada

Geomorphology

Volumn 32, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 263-293

  Brennand, Tracy A ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eskers; Glacier hydrology; Ice dynamics; Laurentide Ice Sheet; Subglacial drainage systems

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; DRAINAGE; ESKER; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; ICE MOVEMENT; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

CANADA;

EID: 0034016722     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(99)00100-2     Document Type: Article

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