Time-transgressive tunnel-valley infill revealed by a three-dimensional sedimentary model, Hamburg, north-west Germany

Sedimentology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 693-719

  Janszen, Adriaan ^a   Moreau, Julien ^b   Moscariello, Andrea ^a,c   Ehlers, Jürgen ^d   Kröger, Jens ^d  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d Geologisches Landesamt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elsterian; Glacial erosion; Glacial sediments; Holsteinian; Ice margin; Subglacial drainage

Indexed keywords

COARSE-GRAINED SEDIMENTS; ELSTERIAN; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIAL SEDIMENTS; HOLSTEINIAN; SEDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURE; SEDIMENTARY MODELS; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

DEPOSITS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ICE;

DEPOSITION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL EROSION; HOLSTEINIAN; ICE MARGIN; ICE SHEET; INFILL; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TERRAIN; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

GERMANY; HAMBURG [GERMANY];

EID: 84875252374     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2012.01357.x     Document Type: Article

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