Three detailed, radiocarbon-dated, Holocene tufa and alluvial fan mollusc successions from southern Ontario: The first in northeastern North America

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 243, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 250-271

  Meyrick, R A ^a   Karrow, P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Holocene; Land snails; Ontario; Radiocarbon

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; FOSSIL RECORD; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; MOLLUSC; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SUCCESSION; TUFA;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

CARYCHIUM NANNODES; COLUMELLA COLUMELLA; GASTROPODA; HELICODISCUS PARALLELUS; MOLLUSCA; NESOVITREA BINNEYANA; PARAVITREA; STYLOMMATOPHORA; VALLONIA ALBULA; VERTIGO (GASTROPOD); VERTIGO MODESTA; VITRINA ANGELICAE;

EID: 33845597490     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.05.020     Document Type: Article

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