River Warren boulders, Minnesota, USA: Catastrophic paleoflow indicators in the southern spillway of glacial Lake Agassiz

Boreas

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 349-358

  Fisher, Timothy G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOULDER; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ; JOKULHLAUP; OUTBURST; PALEOFLOOD;

MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 9744281823     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0300948041001938     Document Type: Article

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