Geomorphology and Retreating Glaciers

Treatise on Geomorphology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2013, Pages 460-478

  Evans, D J A ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deglaciated terrain; Glacial landsystems; Glacial process form continuum; Glacier thermal regime; Glacifluvial landform sediment assemblages; Landsystem superimposition; Moraines; Overdeepenings; Paleoglaciology; Spatio temporal change; Surging glaciers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903430946     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00225-6     Document Type: Chapter

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