Reflections on soft subglacial beds as a mosaic of deforming and stable spots

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 9-10, 2004, Pages 993-1000

  Piotrowski, Jan A ^a   Larsen, Nicolaj K ^a   Junge, Frank W ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Saxon Academy of Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ICE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); RHEOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

COULOMB-PLASTIC RHEOLOGY; SUBGLACIAL BEDS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

DEFORMATION; GLACIER; RHEOLOGY; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT; TILL;

EID: 2342507919     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.01.006     Document Type: Article

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