The nant ffracon 'protalus rampart': Evidence for late pleistocene paraglacial landsliding in snowdonia, wales

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 317-330

  Curry, Alastair M ^a   Walden, John ^b   Cheshire, D Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS FLOW; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; LANDSLIDE; PLEISTOCENE; TALUS;

SNOWDONIA; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES (GWYNEDD);

EID: 0035186138     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(01)80011-0     Document Type: Article

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