A new geological framework for the Middle Ordovician Carillon Formation (uppermost Beekmantown Group, Ottawa Embayment): Onset of Taconic foreland deposition and tectonism within the Laurentian platform interior

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1367-1387

  Dix, George R ^a   Al Rodhan, Zuhor ^a,b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; SALINE WATER; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

EMBAYMENT; PALEOSHELF; PLATFORM-INTERIOR FAULTING;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DEFORMATION; FAULTING; FORELAND BASIN; ORDOVICIAN; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; OTTAWA;

METAZOA;

EID: 33846200844     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E06-030     Document Type: Article

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