Morphometry and core type of streamlined bedforms in southern Sweden from high resolution LiDAR

Geomorphology

Volumn 236, Issue , 2015, Pages 54-63

  Dowling, Thomas P F ^a   Spagnolo, Matteo ^b   Möller, Per ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drumlin; LiDAR; Log normal; Morphology; Palaeoglaciology; Subglacial bedforms

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; DRUMLIN; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIOLOGY; LIDAR; MORPHOMETRY; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84924072331     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.02.018     Document Type: Article

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