Glacial debris flow deposits on the Baffin Island shelf: Seismic facies architecture of till-tongue-like deposits

Marine Geology

Volumn 143, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 151-168

  Stravers, Jay A ^a   Powell, Ross D ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baffin Island; Debris flows; Glaciomarine sedimentation; Ice marginal features; Seismic stratigraphy; Till

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031473347     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(97)00095-9     Document Type: Article

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