Provenance of Des Moines lobe till records ice-stream catchment evolution during Laurentide deglaciation

Boreas

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 585-597

  Lusardi, Barbara A ^a   Jennings, Carrie E ^a   Harris, Kenneth L ^a  

^a Minnesota Geological Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; DEGLACIATION; ICE STREAM; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; LITHOLOGY; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TILL; UNCONFORMITY;

DES MOINES; IOWA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053291058     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2011.00208.x     Document Type: Article

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