Late Quaternary stratigraphy, chronology, and depositional processes on the slope of S.E. Baffin Island, detrital carbonate and Heinrich events: implications for onshore glacial history

Geographie Physique et Quaternaire

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 91-105

  Andrews, John T ^a   Kirby, M ^a   Jennings, Anne E ^a   Barber, D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL HISTORY; HEINRICH EVENT; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

EID: 0031668820     PISSN: 07057199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7202/004762ar     Document Type: Article

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