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Reconstruction of sediment provenance and transport processes from the surface textures of quartz grains from Late Pleistocene sandurs and an ice-marginal valley in NW Poland Cover

Reconstruction of sediment provenance and transport processes from the surface textures of quartz grains from Late Pleistocene sandurs and an ice-marginal valley in NW Poland

Geologos
Volume 21 (2015): Issue 2 (June 2015)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/logos-2015-0007 | Journal eISSN: 2080-6574 | Journal ISSN: 1426-8981
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Language: English
Page range: 105 - 115
Submitted on: Jan 27, 2015
Accepted on: May 10, 2015
Published on: Jul 29, 2015
Published by: Adam Mickiewicz University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
quartz-grain micromorphology,
ice-marginal valley,
sandur,
Weichselian glaciation,
Poland
Related subjects:
Geosciences,
Geology and mineralogy

© 2015 Barbara Woronko, Małgorzata Pisarska-Jamroży, A.J. (Tom) van Loon, published by Adam Mickiewicz University
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