Subglacial extensional fracture development and implications for Alpine Valley evolution

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 62-81

  Leith, Kerry ^a,b   Moore, Jeffrey R ^a,c   Amann, Florian ^a   Loew, Simon ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

exfoliation; extensional fracture; glacial erosion; in situ stress; quarrying; Swiss Alps

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; EXHUMATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FRACTURE; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIATION; QUARRYING; STRESS; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84895797879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2012JF002691     Document Type: Article

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