Ice-wedge pseudomorphs and frost-cracking structures in Weichselian sediments, central-west Poland

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 316-330

  Ewertowski, Marek ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Frost crack; Glacial deposits; Glacier permafrost interaction; Ice wedge pseudomorph; Permafrost; Vistulian glaciation

Indexed keywords

CRACKING; GLACIATION; GLACIOFLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ICE RIDGE; LAST ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; PERMAFROST; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PSEUDOMORPH; THERMOKARST; TILL; VISTULIAN; WARMING; WEICHSELIAN;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; WIELKOPOLSKA;

EID: 70849131521     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: 10991530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.657     Document Type: Article

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