Ribbed moraines in northern Manitoba, Canada: Characteristics and preservation as part of a subglacial bed mosaic near the core regions of ice sheets

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 87, Issue , 2014, Pages 135-155

  Trommelen, Michelle S ^a,c   Ross, Martin ^a   Ismail, Ahmed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Egypt)

^c Manitoba Geological Survey   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronology; Glacial geology; Laurentide Ice Sheet; Manitoba; Paleoglaciology; Palimpsest; Quaternary; Relict; Ribbed moraine; Sticky spot; Subglacial bed mosaic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893623836     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.01.010     Document Type: Article

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