Under pressure: clastic dykes in glacial settings

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 708-720

  van der Meer, Jaap J M ^a   Kjaer K H ^b   Kruger J ^c   Rabassa, J ^d   Kilfeather, A A ^a,e  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d CENTRO AUSTRAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS CADIC CONICET   (Argentina)

^e DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HYDRAULIC EQUIPMENT; HYDRAULICS;

HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS; ICELAND; PATAGONIA; SUBGLACIAL CONDITIONS; SWITZERLAND; WATER VOLUMES;

SAFETY VALVES;

BEDROCK; CLASTIC DIKE; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; GLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; MICROMORPHOLOGY;

ANTARCTICA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; PATAGONIA; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTH AMERICA; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 61649105998     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.07.017     Document Type: Article

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