Thunder Bay, Ontario, was not a pathway for catastrophic floods from Glacial Lake Agassiz

Quaternary International

Volumn 260, Issue , 2012, Pages 98-105

  Voytek, E B ^a,d   Colman, S M ^a   Wattrus, N J ^a   Gary, J L ^a,b   Lewis, C F M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DRAINAGE NETWORK; ESCARPMENT; FLOODING; GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY; SILL; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; THUNDER BAY;

EID: 84860231274     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.10.040     Document Type: Article

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