Glacial landforms, erosional features | Micro to macro scale forms

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 853-864

  Rea, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abrasion; crag and tail; fracture; friction cracks; p forms; plucking; polish; quarrying; roche moutonn e; rock drumlins; striae; subglacial erosion; whalebacks

Indexed keywords

EID: 85079778375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-44-452747-8/00097-1     Document Type: Chapter

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