Facies architecture and grounding-line fan processes of morainal banks during the deglaciation of coastal Maine

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1022-1038

  Hunter, Lewis E ^a   Powell, Ross D ^b   Smith, Geoffrey W ^c  

^a Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; DEPOSITION; GRAVEL; RIVERS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRAJECTORIES;

FACIES ARCHITECTURE; FLUVIAL DEPOSITION; GLACIOTECTONIC DEFORMATION; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; SEDIMENT GRAVITY FLOW; SEDIMENT REDISTRIBUTION; SEDIMENTARY FACIES; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; DEGLACIATIONS; FAN PROCESS; GRAVEL PIT; GROUNDING LINE; JET TRAJECTORY; REMOBILIZATION;

ELECTRIC GROUNDING; SEDIMENTS;

DEGLACIATION; FACIES ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; MORAINE; OUTWASH; REMOBILIZATION; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUSPENDED LOAD; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; GROUNDING LINE; JETS; PLEISTOCENE; SUBMARINE JET;

MAINE; UNITED STATES; USA;

EID: 0030478255     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<1022:FAAGLF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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