Sediment sources of northern Québec and Labrador glacial deposits and the northeastern sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during ice-rafting events of the last glacial cycle

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 27-28, 2009, Pages 3236-3245

  Roy, Martin ^a   Hemming, Sidney R ^b   Parent, Michel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GLACIAL ICE; GLACIAL LINEATION; HEINRICH EVENTS; HUDSON STRAIT; ICE SHEET; ICE-RAFTING EVENTS; ICEBERG DISCHARGES; LAST GLACIAL; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; MASSIVE ICES; NEWFOUNDLANDS; NORTH ATLANTIC; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE STUDIES; RELATIVE STABILITIES; SCALE PATTERN; SEDIMENT SOURCES;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; DEPOSITS; DOMES; GALLIUM; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ICE;

GLACIAL DEPOSIT; HEINRICH EVENT; HORNBLENDE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ICE FLOW; ICE RAFTING; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; ICEBERG; LAST GLACIAL; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROVENANCE;

CANADA; LABRADOR; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 70450253377     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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