The ice/bed interface mosaic: Deforming spots intervening with stable areas under the fringe of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet at Sampława, Poland

Boreas

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 428-441

  Tylmann, Karol ^a   Piotrowski, Jan A ^b   Wysota, Wojciech ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; CHANNEL FLOW; DEFORMATION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; ICE; INFILL; INTERFACE; MELTWATER; OUTWASH; RHEOLOGY; SCANDINAVIAN ICE SHEET; TILL; WEICHSELIAN;

POLAND;

BOREAS;

EID: 84875488808     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00294.x     Document Type: Article

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