Glacitectonism, subglacial and glacilacustrine processes during a neoproterozoic panglaciation, north-east Svalbard

Sedimentology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 411-442

  Fleming, Edward J ^a,b,f   Benn, Douglas I ^b,c   Stevenson, Carl T E ^a   Petronis, Michael S ^d   Hambrey, Michael J ^e   Fairchild, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility; Cryogenian; Glacitectonism; Snowball Earth; Subglacial

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DEPOSITION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEDIMENTS;

ANISOTROPY OF MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; CRYOGENIAN; GLACITECTONISM; SNOWBALL EARTH; SUBGLACIAL;

ICE;

DEFORMATION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; LITHOFACIES; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; TECTONICS;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84958817848     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sed.12251     Document Type: Article

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