The evolution of fluvial systems in the Port Hood Formation (Upper Carboniferous), western Cape Breton Island, eastern Canada

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 97-101

  Keighley, D G ^a,b   Pickerill, R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; PALAEOCURRENT; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; WESTPHALIAN;

CANADA, NOVA SCOTIA, CAPE BRETON ISLAND;

EID: 0030465996     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0037-0738(95)00154-9     Document Type: Article

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