Late Wisconsinan sedimentation in the Québec City region: Evidence for energetic subaqueous fan deposition during initial deglaciation

Geographie Physique et Quaternaire

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 257-273

  Cummings, Don ^a   Occhietti, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; OUTWASH; TURBIDITE; WISCONSINAN;

CANADA; QUEBEC; SAINT LAWRENCE VALLEY;

EID: 0042021589     PISSN: 07057199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7202/006854ar     Document Type: Article

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