The signature of strain magnitude in tills associated with the Vistula Ice Stream of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet, central Poland

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 57, Issue , 2012, Pages 105-120

  Narloch, Włodzimierz ^a   Piotrowski, Jan A ^b   Wysota, Wojciech ^a   Larsen, Nicolaj K ^b   Menzies, John ^c  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Palaeo ice streams; Strain magnitude; Subglacial processes; Till

Indexed keywords

BASAL SLIDING; BED DEFORMATION; CLAST PLOUGHING; EFFECTIVE STRESS; EIGENVALUES; GRAIN SIZE; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAMS; INTERGRANULAR; MICROFABRIC; MICROMORPHOLOGIES; MOVEMENT MECHANISM; MULTI PROXIES; PALAEO-ICE STREAMS; PETROGRAPHIC COMPOSITION; PLEISTOCENE; PORE-WATER PRESSURES; S-MATRIX; STRAIN MAGNITUDE; SUBGLACIAL CONDITIONS; SUBGLACIAL PROCESS; THIN WATER LAYERS; TILL; VERTICAL PROFILE;

CRUSHING; DEFORMATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SEA ICE;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ADVECTION; GRAIN SIZE; ICE SHEET; MAGNITUDE; MATRIX; MORPHOLOGY; PETROGRAPHY; POREWATER; SHEAR STRAIN;

POLAND; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 84868234747     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.09.022     Document Type: Article

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