Progressive proglacial to subglacial deformation and syntectonic sedimentation at the margins of the Mid-Pleistocene British Ice Sheet: evidence from north Norfolk, UK

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 19-20, 2008, Pages 1848-1871

  Phillips, Emrys ^a   Lee, Jonathan R ^a,b   Burke, Helen ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DRAINAGE; FLUID MECHANICS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SHEARING; SHEARING MACHINES; STRATIGRAPHY; WATER; WATER CONTENT;

CHARACTERISATION; CONTROLLING FACTORS; DEFORMATION MODELING; DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; DUCTILE SHEAR; DUCTILE SHEARING; ENGLAND; FORWARD MOTION; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GLACIAL SEDIMENTS; ICE FLOW DYNAMICS; ICE SHEETS; PLEISTOCENE; PORE WATERS; PROGLACIAL; SEDIMENT-DISPERSAL PATTERNS; SHEAR ZONES; SUB-BASINS; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES;

ICE;

ACCRETION; ANGLIAN; DEFORMATION; GLACIOTECTONICS; ICE SHEET; PLEISTOCENE; POREWATER; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR ZONE; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; WATER FLOW;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORFOLK [ENGLAND]; SHERINGHAM; UNITED KINGDOM; WEST RUNTON; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 53549132789     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.06.011     Document Type: Article

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