Facies architecture and sequence stratigraphy in glacially influenced basins: Basic problems and water-level/glacier input-point controls (with an example from the Quaternary of Ontario, Canada)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 123, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 183-197

  Brookfield, M E ^a   Martini, I P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glacier; Problems; Sequence; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

FACIES ANALYSIS; GLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; QUATERNARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CANADA;

EID: 0032837116     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(98)00088-8     Document Type: Article

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