Progressive soft sediment deformation within a subglacial shear zone-a hybrid mosaic-pervasive deformation model for Middle Pleistocene glaciotectonised sediments from eastern England

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 13-14, 2008, Pages 1350-1362

  Lee, Jonathan R ^a   Phillips, Emrys R ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SOIL MECHANICS; TECTONICS;

GLACIOLACUSTRINE BASIN; SUBAQUEOUS FLOWS;

SEDIMENTS;

AQUIFER; DEFORMATION; FOLDING; GLACIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; GLACIOTECTONICS; PLEISTOCENE; POREWATER; REMOBILIZATION; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN ANALYSIS; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; TILL;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 45049084978     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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