Subglacial bed conditions during Late Pleistocene glaciations and their impact on ice dynamics in the southern North Sea

Boreas

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 633-647

  Passchier, Sandra ^a   Laban, Cees ^b   Mesdag, Chris S ^b   Rijsdijk, Kenneth F ^b,c  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; EROSION; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIATION; GLACIER RETREAT; ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; MORAINE; PLEISTOCENE; SAALIAN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 77956886683     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00138.x     Document Type: Article

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