Pre-Wisconsin stratigraphy and paleoclimates off Atlantic Canada, and its bearing on glaciation in Québec

• Published in: Géographie physique et Quaternaire
• Main Authors: Alam, M., Piper, D. J. W.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal 1977
• Subjects: Newfoundland; Canada; Plum Point; glacier*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1000048ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1000048ar

Cores from tops of seamounts close to the continental shelf west of the Grand Banks contain sequences of alternating clays (representing glacials) and foram nanno ooze (deposited in warmer periods), back to the Pliocene. Although sedimentation in the cores is controlled primarily by glacial conditio...