Continental slope sedimentation adjacent to an ice-margin. II. Glaciomarine depositional facies on Labrador Slope and glacial cycles

Marine Geology

Volumn 135, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 65-96

  Wang, Dong ^a   Hesse, Reinhard ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

continental slope; glacial cycles; glaciomarine sedimentation; Heinrich events; Labrador Sea; radio carbonates

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEPOSITIONAL FACIES; GLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIAL CYCLES; GLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; GLACIOMARINE SEDIMENTATION; ICE MARGIN;

LABRADOR SEA, LABRADOR SLOPE;

EID: 0030274140     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(96)00012-6     Document Type: Article

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