The Quaternary Lancaster Sound trough-mouth fan, NW Baffin Bay

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 511-522

  Li, Gang ^a   Piper, David J W ^b   Calvin Campbell, D ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronology; Glacigenic debris flow; Petrology; Sedimentology; Stacking patterns; Trough mouth fan

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; DEBRIS FLOW; FAN DELTA; GLACIATION; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; HEINRICH EVENT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PETROLOGY; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; STACKING; TILL;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; CANADA; LANCASTER SOUND; NUNAVUT;

EID: 79959596839     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1479     Document Type: Article

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