End moraine construction by incremental till deposition below the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Southern Ontario, Canada

Boreas

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 92-104

  Eyles, Nick ^a   Eyles, Carolyn ^b   Menzies, John ^c   Boyce, Joe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; DEPOSITION; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIER; GLACIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; ICE MARGIN; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MORAINE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TILL;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ONTARIO; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 78650386774     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00171.x     Document Type: Article

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