δ13C stratigraphy of the Proterozoic Bylot Supergroup, Baffin Island, Canada: Implications for regional lithostratigraphic correlations

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 313-332

  Kah, Linda C ^a,d   Sherman, Anne G ^b   Narbonne, Guy M ^b   Knoll, Andrew H ^a   Kaufman, Alan J ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; NUNAVUT;

EID: 0033387137     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e98-100     Document Type: Article

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