Stratigraphy, depositional setting, and diagenetic history of the Saint-Jules Formation (Upper Devonian or Mississippian), a newly identified post-Acadian red clastic unit in the southern Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1541-1551

  Jutras, Pierre ^a   Prichonnet, Gilbert ^b  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; GROUNDWATER; HISTORY; SEDIMENTATION;

FLUVIAL PROCESSES;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CALCRETE; CLASTIC ROCK; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEVONIAN; MISSISSIPPIAN; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

CANADA;

EID: 0036825475     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e02-044     Document Type: Article

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