The influence of shelf-crossing glaciation on continental slope sedimentation, Flemish Pass, eastern Canadian continental margin

Marine Geology

Volumn 265, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 67-85

  Huppertz, Tammo J ^a   Piper, David J W ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

eastern Canadian continental margin; Flemish Pass; mass transport deposits

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; EASTERN CANADIAN CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FLEMISH PASS; GLACIAL ICE; GRAND BANKS; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE QUATERNARY; MASS TRANSPORT DEPOSIT; MASS-TRANSPORT DEPOSITS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PISTON CORES; PROGLACIAL; RADIOCARBON DATES; REFLECTION DATA; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEDIMENTATION PROCESS; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SEISMIC PROFILES; WATER DEPTH;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; DEPOSITS; GLACIERS; ICE; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; MASS TRANSPORT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TURBIDITE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FLEMISH PASS;

EID: 68149170023     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.06.017     Document Type: Article

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