Patterns of Late Pleistocene proglacial fluvial sedimentation in the SE Lithuanian Plain

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 193, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 193-201

  Blažauskas, Nerijus ^a,b   Jurgaitis, Algirdas ^b   Šinkunas, Petras ^b  

^a KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Braided streams; Glaciofluvial sedimentation; Ice marginal river; Outwash plain; Proglacial valley; Quaternary; SE Lithuania

Indexed keywords

BRAIDED RIVER; FACIES ANALYSIS; GLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; GLACIOFLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ICE MARGIN; ICE RETREAT; LAST GLACIATION; LITHOFACIES; OUTWASH; PLEISTOCENE; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

BALTIC STATES; EURASIA; EUROPE; LITHUANIA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845341056     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.06.015     Document Type: Article

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