The sedimentary record of drifting ice (early Wisconsin Sunnybrook deposit) in an ancestral ice-dammed Lake Ontario, Canada

Quaternary Research

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-181

  Eyles, Nicholas ^a   Eyles, Carolyn H ^b   Woodworth Lynas, Christopher ^c   Randall, Todd A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Guigne International Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early Laurentide Ice Sheet; Ice keel turbation; Sunnybrook Till

Indexed keywords

GLACIER SURGE; ICE RAFTING; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; LINEATION;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES; LAKE ONTARIO; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ILLINOIA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 14544284082     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2004.12.002     Document Type: Article

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