Subglacial conditions in a branching Saalian esker in north-central Poland

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 193, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 33-46

  Mokhtari Fard, Amir ^a   Gruszka, Beata ^b  

^a Geological and Geotechnical Monitoring Hydro Research   (Sweden)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Esker; Facies analysis; North Poland; Pleistocene; Subglacial tunnel deposits

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ESKER; FACIES ANALYSIS; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; LITHOFACIES; MELTWATER; SAALIAN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

EID: 33845342135     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.03.029     Document Type: Article

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