Chapter 27 The Use of Heavy Minerals in the Reconstruction of Ice-Sheet Drainage Patterns: An Example from the Edge of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 677-699

  Passchier, Sandra ^a  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

glacial events; heavy minerals; ice sheet drainage; till; Transantarctic Mountains

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349090254     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(07)58027-1     Document Type: Review

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