A new method to estimate the infilling of alluvial sediment of glacial valleys using a sloping local base level

Geografia Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-46

  Jaboyedoff, Michel ^a,b   Derron, Marc Henri ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Quanterra   (Switzerland)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Digital terrain model; Glacial valley; Infilling sediment; Sloping base local base level; Volume estimation

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; SEDIMENTATION; VALLEY FILL;

EID: 33644781803     PISSN: 03919838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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