Identification and dating of a key Late Pleistocene stratigraphic unit in the St. Lawrence Estuary and Gulf (Eastern Canada)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 25-26, 2008, Pages 2390-2400

  St Onge, Guillaume ^a,b   Lajeunesse, Patrick ^c   Duchesne, Mathieu J ^d   Gagné, Hubert ^c  

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

^b GEOTOP   (Canada)

^c CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CLAY MINERALS; DEBRIS; ESTUARIES; ICE; REFLECTION; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

DEGLACIATION; GLACIOMARINE SEDIMENTS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; LAWRENCE ESTUARIES; SEDIMENT CORES; SEDIMENT FACIES; SEDIMENTARY FACIES; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; SHALLOWER DEPTHS; SILTY CLAYS; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; SUBBOTTOM PROFILERS; YOUNGER DRYAS;

SEISMOLOGY;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEGLACIATION; FACIES; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; ICE SHEET; ICEBERG; PLEISTOCENE; POSTGLACIAL; SEISMIC REFLECTION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE; LAURENTIAN CHANNEL;

EID: 56549095621     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.08.023     Document Type: Article

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