Upper Ordovician facies in the Lac Saint-Jean outlier, Quebec (eastern Canada): palaeoenvironmental significance for Late Ordovician oceanography

Sedimentology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 817-832

  Lavoie, D ^a   Asselin, E ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FACIES ANALYSIS; LIMESTONE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTATION;

CANADA;

EID: 0032456542     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1998.00170.x     Document Type: Article

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