Insight into the character of palaeo-ice-flow in upland regions of mountain valleys during the last major advance (Vashon Stade) of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, southwest British Columbia, Canada

Boreas

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 171-186

  Lian, Olav B ^a   Hicock, Stephen R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FRASER VALLEY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DEGLACIATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIATION; GLACIOTECTONICS; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PIEDMONT; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; UPLAND REGION; VALLEY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; COAST MOUNTAINS; PUGET LOWLAND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 77953876545     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00123.x     Document Type: Article

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