Litho-and chronostratigraphy of the Late Weichselian in Vendsyssel, northern Denmark, with special emphasis on tunnel-valley infill in relation to a receding ice margin

Boreas

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 811-833

  Krohn, Charlotte Fog ^a   Larsen, Nicolaj Krog ^a,b   Kronborg, Christian ^a   Nielsen, Ole Bjørslev ^a   Knudsen, Karen Luise ^a  

^a Department of Earth Sciences ^*  (Denmark)

^b GeoBiosphere Science Centre   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; DEGLACIATION; DEPOSITION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIOTECTONICS; ICE MARGIN; ICE RETREAT; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAM; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MORAINE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; REGRESSION; SEDIMENTATION; VALLEY FILL; WEICHSELIAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DENMARK; NORDJYLLAND; NORTH SEA; NORWEGIAN CHANNEL; VENDSYSSEL;

EID: 73849131076     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00104.x     Document Type: Article

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