Origin of the Driftless Area by subglacial drainage - A new hypothesis

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 337, Issue , 1999, Pages 93-102

  Hobbs, Howard ^a  

^a Minnesota Geological Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; SIEVES;

CONTINENTAL ICE SHEET; ILLINOIS; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MISSOURIS; PALEOZOIC; PINNING POINTS; PORE-WATER PRESSURES; WISCONSIN;

ICE;

BEDROCK; DRAINAGE NETWORK; GLACIATION; ICE DRIFT; ICE SHEET; PALEOZOIC; SHEAR STRESS; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT;

MIDCONTINENT; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MISSOURI; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84870905603     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2337-X.93     Document Type: Article

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