Pebbly versus bouldery rock glaciers: Morphology, structure and processes

Geomorphology

Volumn 73, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 279-296

  Ikeda, Atsushi ^a,b   Matsuoka, Norikazu ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Debris supply; Geophysical soundings; Mountain permafrost; Rock control; Rock glacier; Swiss Alps

Indexed keywords

BOULDER; GEOPHYSICS; GLACIAL DEBRIS; PERMAFROST; ROCK GLACIER;

XIPHOPHORUS MACULATUS;

EID: 29744435488     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.07.015     Document Type: Article

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