Late quaternary sedimentation on the southwestern Scotian Slope, eastern Canada: Relationship to glaciation

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 267-285

  Hundert, Thian ^a   Piper, David J W ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CANNING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

AIR GUNS; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPES; DOWNSLOPE; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIAL RETREAT; GLACIAL TILL; HEMIPELAGIC SEDIMENTATION; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM (LGM); LATE QUATERNARY; PISTON CORES; PROGLACIAL; SCOTIAN SHELF; SEDIMENT CORES; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SHALLOW DEPTHS;

SEDIMENTATION;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; GLACIATION; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TURBIDITE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE; LAURENTIAN CHANNEL; NORTH AMERICA; SCOTIA SHELF; SCOTIA SLOPE;

EID: 46749100250     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E07-075     Document Type: Article

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