New data from Halifax Harbour: paleoenvironment and a new Holocene sea-level curve for the inner Scotian shelf

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 805-817

  Edgecombe, Roger B ^a   Scott, David B ^b   Fader, Gordon B J ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; HOLOCENE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SCOTIAN SHELF;

EID: 0033390372     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e99-083     Document Type: Article

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