High-resolution seismo-stratigraphy and sedimentological properties of late- and postglacial sediments in Lac Guillaume-Delisle Estuary and Nastapoka Sound, eastern Hudson Bay

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 427-441

  Lavoie, Caroline ^a,b   Hill, Philip R ^c   Allard, Michel ^a   St Onge, Guillaume ^d   Lajeunesse, Patrick ^a  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^d INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ACOUSTICS; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CARBON; DEPOSITS; ESTUARIES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; WATER LEVELS;

(PL) PROPERTIES; ALLOCHTHONOUS SOURCES; DEGLACIATION; DELTAIC DEPOSITS; ESTUARINE DEPOSITS; GLACIAL RETREAT; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSITS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; LATE QUATERNARY; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET (LIS); MARINE WATERS; MASS WASTING; RE-DEPOSITION; RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL (RSL); RIVER DISCHARGES; SEDIMENTARY BASINS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; TOTAL NITROGEN (TN);

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ALLOCHTHONY; DEGLACIATION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; POSTGLACIAL; QUATERNARY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOGRAPH; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATIGRAPHY;

CANADA; HUDSON BAY; LAC GUILLAUME-DELISLE ESTUARY; NASTAPOKA SOUND; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 46749086290     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E08-010     Document Type: Article

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