Petrographic evidence from the eastern Canadian margin of shelf-crossing glaciations

Quaternary International

Volumn 99, Issue 100, 2003, Pages 99-113

  Piper, David J W ^a   DeWolfe, Michelle ^a,b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; HEINRICH EVENT; ICE RAFTING; PETROGRAPHY; QUATERNARY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037225413     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1040-6182(02)00115-5     Document Type: Article

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