Megagrooves and streamlined bedrock in NW Scotland: The role of ice streams in landscape evolution

Geomorphology

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 135-156

  Bradwell, Tom ^a   Stoker, Martyn ^a   Krabbendam, Maarten ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glacial lineations; NW Scotland; Onset zone; Palaeo ice stream

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; BEDROCK; FLOW VELOCITY; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAM; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MORAINE; MORPHOMETRY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 41849094466     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.02.040     Document Type: Article

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