Late Quaternary geological history of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
Mahone Bay is located on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia. It is an exhumed Carboniferous basin, overdeepened by glacial erosion, with widespread late Wisconsinan sheet and drumlin tills. Subglacial channels that cut both till and bedrock were formed when the ice sheet stagnated after marine incurs...
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crcansciencepubl:10.1139/e78-063 2023-12-17T10:31:45+01:00 Late Quaternary geological history of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia Barnes, Neal E. Piper, David J. W. 1978 http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e78-063 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e78-063 en eng Canadian Science Publishing http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/page/about/CorporateTextAndDataMining Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences volume 15, issue 4, page 586-593 ISSN 0008-4077 1480-3313 General Earth and Planetary Sciences journal-article 1978 crcansciencepubl https://doi.org/10.1139/e78-063 2023-11-19T13:39:33Z Mahone Bay is located on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia. It is an exhumed Carboniferous basin, overdeepened by glacial erosion, with widespread late Wisconsinan sheet and drumlin tills. Subglacial channels that cut both till and bedrock were formed when the ice sheet stagnated after marine incursion into the Bay of Fundy. Seismic reflection profiling and piston cores show up to 75 m of proglacial lake silts ponded behind a bedrock sill at the entrance to the bay. These are overlain by a thin lagoonal sequence, and then by marine sediments accumulated over the last 6000 years, reflecting the gradual Holocene transgression. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet Canadian Science Publishing (via Crossref) Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 15 4 586 593 |
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Mahone Bay is located on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia. It is an exhumed Carboniferous basin, overdeepened by glacial erosion, with widespread late Wisconsinan sheet and drumlin tills. Subglacial channels that cut both till and bedrock were formed when the ice sheet stagnated after marine incursion into the Bay of Fundy. Seismic reflection profiling and piston cores show up to 75 m of proglacial lake silts ponded behind a bedrock sill at the entrance to the bay. These are overlain by a thin lagoonal sequence, and then by marine sediments accumulated over the last 6000 years, reflecting the gradual Holocene transgression. |
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Late Quaternary geological history of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia |
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