Sedimentology and architecture of De Geer moraines in the western Scottish Highlands, and implications for grounding-line glacier dynamics

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 208, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 1-14

  Golledge, Nicholas R ^a,b   Phillips, Emrys ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

De Geer moraine; Grounding line; Ice dammed lake; Scotland; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

ALLOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEBRIS FLOW; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEGLACIATION; DIAMICTON; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER RETREAT; GLACIOTECTONICS; GRAIN SIZE; GROUNDING LINE; ICE MARGIN; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; MORAINE; SAND AND GRAVEL; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

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

EID: 46249132619     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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