The sedimentology of the Late Pleistocene Bannow Till stratotype, County Wexford, southeast Ireland

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 119, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 329-338

  Evans, David J A ^a   Ó Cofaigh, Colm ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barrow Till; glacitectonite; stratotype; subglacial traction till

Indexed keywords

DIAMICTON; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER FLOW; GLACIOTECTONICS; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; OUTWASH; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHEAR BAND; STRATIFICATION; STRATOTYPE; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT;

COUNTY WEXFORD; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; LEINSTER; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67049107860     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(08)80309-4     Document Type: Article

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