"Pimple" mound microrelief in southern Saskatchewan, Canada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 490, Issue , 2012, Pages 43-61

  Irvine, L Lee Ann ^a   Dale, Janis E ^b  

^a ROYAL SASKATCHEWAN MUSEUM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOILS; STRATIGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS; BIOTURBATION; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GRAVELLY SOILS; RANDOM PATTERN; SASKATCHEWAN; SASKATCHEWAN , CANADA; SHALLOW SOILS;

ANIMALS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BIOTURBATION; BURROWING ORGANISM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MICRORELIEF; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; PRAIRIE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CANADA; LITTLE MANITOU LAKE; SASKATCHEWAN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84876787718     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2012.2490(02)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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