Origin, age, and palaeoenvironmental significance of carbonate precipitates from a granitic environment, Akshayuk Pass, southern Baffin Island, Canada

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-79

  Lacelle, Denis ^a   Lauriol, Bernard ^a   Clark, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CARBONATES; EVAPORATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; ISOTOPES; PRECIPITATES;

CALCITE CRUSTS; EVAPORATION RATE; GRANITIC ENVIRONMENT; KINETIC EVAPORATION; RADIOCARBON DATING;

PETROLOGY;

CALCITE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; EPHEMERAL LAKE; EVAPORATION; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; KATABATIC FLOW; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORAINE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; VALLEY GLACIER;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

EID: 34249894190     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E06-088     Document Type: Article

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