Climatic and tectonic influences on fan deltas and wave- to tide-controlled shoreface deposits: evidence from the Archaean Keskarrah Formation, Slave Province, Canada

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 120, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 125-152

  Corcoran, P L ^a   Mueller, W U ^a   Chown, E H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; FAN DELTA; PALAEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONICS;

CANADA;

EID: 0032168139     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(98)00030-X     Document Type: Article

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