Unusual development of sandur sedimentary succession, an example from the pleistocene of s Poland

Geologos

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 83-99

  Salamon, Tomasz ^a   Zieliński, Tomasz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Outwash deposits; Pleistocene; Poland; Sedimentology

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650208854     PISSN: 14268981     EISSN: 20806574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10118-009-0007-9     Document Type: Article

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