A new method to estimate accumulation rates of lignites in the Eocene Buchanan Lake Formation, Canadian Arctic

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 115-122

  Kojima, Satoru ^a   Sweda, Tatsuo ^b   Lepage, Ben A ^c   Basinger, James F ^d  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accumulation rate; Buchanan Lake Formation; Canadian Arctic; Eocene; Lignite

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; LIGNITE; PEAT; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION;

CANADA;

EID: 0031714516     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(98)00011-X     Document Type: Article

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