Effects of rock avalanches on glacier behaviour and moraine formation

Geomorphology

Volumn 132, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 327-338

  Reznichenko, Natalya V ^a   Davies, Tim R H ^a   Alexander, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Glacier advances; Ice surface ablation; Paleoclimatology and hazards; Rock avalanches; Supraglacial debris; Terminal moraines

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS FLOW; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; GLACIAL DEBRIS; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; LABORATORY METHOD; MORAINE; OROGENY; PALEOCLIMATE; ROCK AVALANCHE; ROCKFALL;

FRANZ JOSEF GLACIER; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS; WEST COAST [SOUTH ISLAND];

EID: 79960246595     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.05.019     Document Type: Article

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