Development of sediment-landform associations at cold glacier margins, Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Sedimentology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 857-882

  Hambrey, Michael J ^a   Fitzsimons, Sean J ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Cold glaciers; Debris entrainment; Dry Valleys; Glacial deposition; Glacial landforms

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; ARID ENVIRONMENT; DRIFT (GLACIAL DEPOSIT); GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIOTECTONICS; ICE CORE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; LITHOFACIES; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; REGOLITH; SUBLIMATION; VALLEY GLACIER;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS; VICTORIA LAND; WRIGHT VALLEY;

EID: 77952071077     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01123.x     Document Type: Review

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