Sedimentology of a wet, pre-vegetation floodplain assemblage

Sedimentology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1030-1049

  Fralick, Philip ^a   Zaniewski, Kamil ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Floodplain; Fluvial system; Mudcracks; Pre vegetation; Precambrian; Proterozoic; Sibley group

Indexed keywords

FLOOD PLAINS; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; MUDCRACKS; PRE-VEGETATION; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC; SIBLEY GROUP;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CORE DRILLING; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITS; GALLIUM; LAKES; LAMINATING; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VEGETATION;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER);

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CLAST; DEFORMATION; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL PROCESS; MACROPHYTE; MUDSTONE; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILTSTONE;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84858707131     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01291.x     Document Type: Article

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