Time-transgressive tunnel valley formation indicated by infill sediment structure, North Sea - The role of glaciohydraulic supercooling

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 546-559

  Kristensen, Thomas Bojer ^a,d   Piotrowski, Jan A ^a,b   Huuse, Mads ^c   Clausen, Ole R ^a   Hamberg, Lars ^d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d DONG Energy ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

3D seismic data; North Sea; Supercooling; Tunnel valleys

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

GLACIOHYDRAULIC SUPERCOOLING; SUBGLACIAL MELTWATER; TUNNEL VALLEY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DEGLACIATION; FORMATION MECHANISM; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIER RETREAT; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; ICE MARGIN; INFILL; LITHOLOGY; MELTWATER; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SEISMIC DATA; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRANSGRESSION; VALLEY FILL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 42049097201     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1668     Document Type: Article

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