Glacial loading and unloading: A possible cause of rock salt dissolution in the Western Canada Basin

Carbonates and Evaporites

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 43-52

  Anderson, Neil L ^a   Hinds, Ronald C ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; DRAINAGE; GLACIAL LOADING; LOADING/UNLOADING; ROCK SALT; SUBSIDENCE;

CANADA, CANADA BASIN;

EID: 0030778596     PISSN: 08912556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03175801     Document Type: Article

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