Saprolite remnants as indicators of pre-glacial landform genesis in southeast Sweden

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 447-460

  Olvmo, Mats ^a   Lidmar Bergström, Karna ^b   Ericson, Kerstin ^a   Bonow, Johan M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Glacial erosion; Glaciofluvial erosion; Joint block hills; Landscape genesis; Neogene weathering; Saprolite; South Sweden

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIOFLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; SAPROLITE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

GRUS;

EID: 26844450275     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: 14680459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0435-3676.2005.00270.x     Document Type: Article

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