Depositional and tectonic setting of the Miocene Wood Mountain Formation, southern Saskatchewan

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1319-1328

  Leckie, Dale A ^a   Bednarski, Jan M ^b   Young, Harvey R ^c  

^a CNOOC LTD   (China)

^b Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^c BRANDON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; LANDFORMS; RIVERS; SAND; TECTONICS; WOOD;

COARSE GRAVEL; ISOSTATIC UPLIFT; MIOSCENE WOOD MOUNTAIN FORMATION;

GRAVEL;

BRAIDED RIVER; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MIOCENE; SAND AND GRAVEL; UPLIFT;

DEPOSITION; EROSION; MOUNTAINS; PLANTATIONS; RIVERS; SAND; WOOD;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; SASKATCHEWAN; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 12444280045     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E04-076     Document Type: Article

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