Younger Dryas glacial advance in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada: Analogue for ice inception?

Boreas

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 345-362

  Stea, Rudolph R ^a   Mott, Robert J ^b  

^a NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIATION; GLACIER ADVANCE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 22444438838     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2005.tb01106.x     Document Type: Article

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