The chronostratigraphy of holocene sediments from four lake superior sub-basins

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1581-1599

  Hyodo, Ayumi ^a,b   Longstaffe, Fred J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE CONTENT; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; GLACIAL MELTWATER; GLACIAL SEDIMENTS; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS; LAKE SUPERIOR; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; RADIOCARBON DATES; SEDIMENT CORE; STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; SUBBASINS; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MINERALOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

LAKES;

ALLOCHTHON; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORRELATION; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MELTWATER; MINERALOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RHYTHMITE; SEDIMENT CORE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE SUPERIOR;

EID: 82355161265     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: 14803313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E11-060     Document Type: Article

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