Effects of the substratum on the formation of glacial tunnel valleys: An example from the Middle Pleistocene of the southern north sea basin

Boreas

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 629-643

  Janszen, Adriaan ^a   Spaak, Michael ^a   Moscariello, Andrea ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE SHEET; LITHOLOGY; MELTWATER; PLEISTOCENE; VALLEY GLACIER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

BOREAS;

EID: 84866758774     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00260.x     Document Type: Article

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