Subglacial outburst floods and extreme sedimentary events in the Labrador Sea

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 370, Issue , 2003, Pages 25-41

  Shaw, John ^a   Lesemann, Jerome Etienne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Braid plain; Climate change; Detrital carbonate flood beds; Erosion volumes; Heinrich layers; Levee sedimentation; Meltwater landforms; Subglacial floods; Submarine channel

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CARBONATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITS; EMBANKMENTS; EROSION; FLOODS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LEVEES; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

BRAID PLAIN; DETRITAL CARBONATE; HEINRICH LAYERS; HEMIPELAGIC SEDIMENTS; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; SUBGLACIAL LANDFORMS; SUBGLACIAL MELTWATER; SUBMARINE CHANNEL;

SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

CARBONATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EXTREME EVENT; HEINRICH EVENT; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; LEVEE; OUTBURST; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84871013811     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2370-1.25     Document Type: Article

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