Polyphase glacigenic deformation in the Waterloo Moraine, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 235, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 292-303

  Weaver, Laura ^a   Arnaud, Emmanuelle ^b  

^a AquaResource Inc   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brittle deformation; Ductile deformation; Ice marginal features; Moraines; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; COARSE-GRAINED; DEFORMATION STRUCTURE; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; FLUCTUATING ENERGY; HETEROGENEOUS SEDIMENTS; ICE DEFORMATION; INTERBEDDED CLAY; M-SCALE; MORAINES; NORMAL FAULTS; ONTARIO; ONTARIO , CANADA; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY SEDIMENTS; RAPID SEDIMENTATION; REVERSE FAULTING; SEDIMENT GRAVITY FLOW; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; WATERLOO MORAINE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GRANULATION; GRAVEL; ICE; SAND; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILT; STRATIGRAPHY;

DEFORMATION;

BOUDINAGE; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEPOSITION VELOCITY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; ICE FLOW; MORAINE; QUATERNARY; REVERSE FAULT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIFORM DEPOSIT;

CANADA; KITCHENER; ONTARIO [CANADA]; WATERLOO;

EID: 79952447461     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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