Drainage beneath ice sheets: groundwater-channel coupling, and the origin of esker systems from former ice sheets

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 621-638

  Boulton, G S ^a   Hagdorn, M ^a   Maillot, P B ^a   Zatsepin, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DRAINAGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC MODELS; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; TUNNELS; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS;

BED DEFORMATIONS; CHANNEL COUPLINGS; CHANNEL SYSTEMS; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; DEEP GROUNDWATERS; DRAINAGE CHANNELS; DRAINAGE PATTERNS; DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC BEHAVIOURS; DYNAMIC EVENTS; DYNAMIC REGIMES; EFFECTIVE PRESSURES; GLACIAL CYCLES; GROUNDWATER CHEMISTRIES; HYDRAULIC GRADIENTS; HYDRAULIC REGIMES; ICE FLOWS; ICE SHEETS; LARGE-SCALE DISTRIBUTIONS; MOBILISATION; RECHARGE RATES; SEDIMENT DEFORMATIONS; SPATIAL VARIABILITIES; TRANSMISSIVITY; WATER PRESSURES;

ICE;

DRAINAGE; DRUMLIN; ESKER; FOSSIL RECORD; GLACIATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; ICE SHEET; PALEOHYDROLOGY; RECHARGE; TRANSMISSIVITY; WATER CHEMISTRY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 61649113396     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.05.009     Document Type: Article

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