Sequencing the Sturtian icehouse: Dynamic ice behaviour in South Australia

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 443-456

  Busfield, M E ^a   Le Heron, D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY; WAREHOUSES;

GLACIAL ADVANCES; GLACIAL INFLUENCES; GLACIAL RETREAT; PALAEOTOPOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT SOURCES; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; SYSTEMS TRACTS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CLAST; CONGLOMERATE; DIAMICTITE; FACIES; GLACIATION; GLACIER RETREAT; HUMMOCKY CROSS-STRATIFICATION; ICE SHEET; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILTSTONE;

AUSTRALIA; FLINDERS RANGE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84899552208     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs2013-067     Document Type: Article

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