Criteria to distinguish between periglacial, proglacial and paraglacial environments

Quaestiones Geographicae

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-94

  Slaymaker, Olav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disturbance regime; Paraglacial; Periglacial; Proglacial

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GLACIATION; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 79953325519     PISSN: 0137477X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10117-011-0008-y     Document Type: Article

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