Facies characteristics of Middle Pleistocene (Saalian) ice-margin subaqueous fan and delta deposits, glacial Lake Leine, NW Germany

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 193, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 105-129

  Winsemann, Jutta ^a   Asprion, Ulrich ^a   Meyer, Thomas ^a   Schramm, Christoph ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cohensionless debris flows; Gilbert type delta; Subaqueous dunes; Subaqueous ice contact fan; Sustained turbidity currents

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS FLOW; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL LAKE; ICE MARGIN; PLEISTOCENE; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 33845430519     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.11.027     Document Type: Article

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