Neotectonic jointing control on Lake Ontario shoreline orientation at Scarborough, Ontario

Geoscience Canada

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-30

  Eyles, Nicholas ^a   Scheidegger, Adrian E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; JOINT; NEOTECTONICS; PLEISTOCENE; SHORE (NONMARINE);

CANADA;

EID: 0033102661     PISSN: 03150941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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