A new technique for identifying rock avalanche-sourced sediment in moraines and some paleoclimatic implications

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 319-322

  Reznichenko, Natalya V ^a   Davies, Timothy R H ^a   Shulmeister, James ^b   Larsen, Stuart H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATIC DRIVERS; CLIMATIC INDICATORS; CLIMATIC SIGNALS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; GLACIER MOTIONS; HOLOCENES; NEW ZEALAND; ROCK AVALANCHE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ERRORS; GRINDING (COMMINUTION); ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; MORAINE; PALEOCLIMATE; ROCK AVALANCHE;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 84861416993     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32684.1     Document Type: Article

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