Controlled moraine development and debris transport pathways in polythermal plateau icefields: Examples from Tungnafellsjökull, Iceland

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1430-1444

  Evans, David J A ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basal thermal regime; Clast form analysis; Controlled moraine; Glacial debris transport pathways; Plateau icefield landsystem

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED MORAINE; FORM ANALYSIS; GLACIAL DEBRIS; PLATEAU ICEFIELD LANDSYSTEM; THERMAL REGIMES;

ABRASION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; HEATING; ICE; LANDFORMS; OPEN HEARTH FURNACES;

DEBRIS;

GLACIAL DEBRIS; GLACIAL EROSION; ICE FIELD; ICE MARGIN; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LITTLE ICE AGE; PUSH MORAINE; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT; THERMAL REGIME; VALLEY GLACIER;

ICELAND;

EID: 78149322594     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1984     Document Type: Article

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