Criteria for identifying jökulhlaup deposits in the sedimentary record

Megaflooding on Earth and Mars

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 225-242

  Marren, Philip M ^a   Schuh, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Germany)

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