A far-field record of the end Ordovician glaciation: The Ellis Bay Formation, Anticosti Island, Eastern Canada

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 296, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 248-263

  Desrochers, André ^a   Farley, Claude ^a   Achab, Aicha ^b   Asselin, Esther ^c   Riva, John F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^c NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anticosti Island; Carbonate ramp; Far field glacial locality; Gamachian; Hirnantian; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE RAMP; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLACIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GONDWANA; ORDOVICIAN; OUTCROP; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTROPICAL KINGDOM; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHORELINE; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

ANTICOSTI ISLAND; CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 77956913112     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.02.017     Document Type: Article

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