Identifying palaeo-ice-stream tributaries on hard beds: Mapping glacial bedforms and erosion zones in NW Scotland

Geomorphology

Volumn 201, Issue , 2013, Pages 397-414

  Bradwell, Tom ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bedforms; Ice stream; Onset zone; Palaeoglaciology; Thermal regime

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; GLACIOLOGY; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAM; MAPPING; RHEOLOGY; SCOUR; SPATIAL VARIATION; THERMAL REGIME; TRIBUTARY;

HIGHLAND; LOCH LAXFORD; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84885064725     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.07.014     Document Type: Article

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