Bedform patterns, subglacial meltwater events, and Late Devensian ice sheet dynamics in north-central Ireland

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 35, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 237-253

  Knight, Jasper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bedform patterns; Ice streams; Ireland; Rogen moraines; Subglacial lakes; Subglacial thermal regime

Indexed keywords

DEVENSIAN; GLACIAL LANDFORM; ICE MOVEMENT; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL; MELTWATER; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

IRELAND;

EID: 0037291981     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(02)00129-7     Document Type: Article

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