Quaternary features beneath Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada: Drumlins, tunnel channels, and records of proglacial to postglacial closed and overflowing lakes

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 361-380

  Todd, Brian J ^a   Lewis, C F Michael ^a   Anderson, Thane W ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Closed lake; Glacial sediment; Lake Algonquin; Lake Simcoe; Seismostratigraphy; Tunnel channel

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE WATER; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; POSTGLACIAL; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; SAMPLING; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STRATIGRAPHY;

ALGONQUIN LAKE; CANADA; GEORGIAN BAY; HURON BASIN; LAKE SIMCOE; MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; OAK RIDGES MORAINE; ONTARIO [CANADA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41049107657     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-007-9111-4     Document Type: Article

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