A comparative analyses of microstructures from Late Jurassic diamictic units, near Helmsdale, northeast Scotland and a Pleistocene diamicton from near Milton, southern Ontario, Canada - A differential diagnostic method of sediment typing using micromorphology

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-94

  Menzies, J ^a   Whiteman, C ^b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conglomerates; Diamictites; Diamictons; Diamicts; Jurassic; Micromorphology; Pleistocene; Statistical analyses; Till

Indexed keywords

CLAST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGLOMERATE; DEPOSITION; DIAMICTITE; JURASSIC; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MASS MOVEMENT; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MICROSTRUCTURE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MILTON; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67649464558     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016774600001001     Document Type: Article

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