Glacial sediments and landforms of Holderness, eastern England: A glacial depositional model for the North Sea Lobe of the British-Irish Ice Sheet

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 101, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 147-189

  Evans, David J A ^a   Thomson, Stephen A ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LAING O'ROURKE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British Irish Ice Sheet; Glacial depositional environment; Glacial sediments; Holderness; North Sea Lobe

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIER RETREAT; HUMMOCKY CROSS-STRATIFICATION; ICE SHEET; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LITHOFACIES; LITHOLOGY; OUTWASH; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PERMAFROST; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR ZONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE; ENGLAND; HOLDERNESS; NORTH SEA; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77954656532     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.04.003     Document Type: Review

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