Orbital forcing and Mississippian sea level change: Time series analysis of marine flooding events in the Viséan Windsor Group of eastern Canada and implications for Gondwana glaciation

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 449-471

  Giles, Peter S ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET; MARINE FLOODING; NOVA SCOTIA; ORBITAL FORCING; ORBITAL PERIODS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SINE-WAVE; WINDSOR;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; PHOTODEGRADATION; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY; TIME SERIES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ECCENTRICITY; FLOODING; ICE SHEET; OBLIQUITY; ORBITAL FORCING; PRECESSION; TIME SERIES; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE; VISEAN;

CANADA; NOVA SCOTIA; SHUBENACADIE BASIN;

EID: 77954258392     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscpgbull.57.4.449     Document Type: Article

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