First evidence for Cambrian glaciation provided by sections in Avalonian New Brunswick and Ireland: Additional data for Avalon-Gondwana separation by the earliest Palaeozoic

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 285, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 174-185

  Landing, Ed ^a   MacGabhann, Breandán Anraoi ^b  

^a NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Booley Bay Formation; Cambrian; Chapel Island Formation; Diamictite; Glaciation; Ireland; Mystery Lake Member; New Brunswick; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

AVALONIA; CAMBRIAN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DIAMICTITE; EUSTACY; FACIES; FOSSIL RECORD; GLACIATION; GONDWANA; MUDSTONE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CANADA; IRELAND; NEW BRUNSWICK;

WATSONELLA;

EID: 73049092384     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.11.009     Document Type: Article

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