Testing the efficacy of the glacial buzzsaw: Insights from the Sredinny Mountains, Kamchatka

Geomorphology

Volumn 206, Issue , 2014, Pages 230-238

  Barr, Iestyn D ^a   Spagnolo, Matteo ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glacial buzzsaw; Glacial erosion; Glacial geomorphology; Hypsometry; Landscape evolution; Topography

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIATION; HYPSOMETRY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MOUNTAIN; QUATERNARY; SNOW AVALANCHE; TOPOGRAPHY;

KAMCHATKA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SREDINNYI RANGE;

EID: 84894969745     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.09.026     Document Type: Article

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