Rocky shoreline deposits in the Lower Silurian (upper Llandovery, Telychian) Chicotte Formation, Anticosti Island, Quebec

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1205-1214

  Desrochers, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; MORPHOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; ROCKS; SEA LEVEL;

EROSIONAL SURFACES; ROCKY SHORELINE DEPOSITS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PALEOMORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES;

COASTAL ZONES;

EROSION; LLANDOVERIAN; ROCKY SHORE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ANTICOSTI ISLAND; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

CRINOIDEA;

EID: 33845989137     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E06-054     Document Type: Article

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