A comparative analyses of microstructures from Late Jurassic diamictic units, near Helmsdale, northeast Scotland and a Pleistocene diamicton from near Milton, southern Ontario, Canada – a differential diagnostic method of sediment typing using micromorphology

• Main Authors: Menzies, John, Whiteman, C.A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: diamictites; diamictons; diamicts; till; micromorphology; Jurassic; conglomerates; Pleistocene; statistical analyses; Canada; Milton; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/publications/00218dc8-df88-4295-8b00-cc1bce657420; http://www.njgonline.nl/publish/articles/000414/english.html

Micromorphology is used to examine and compare a Late Jurassic diamictite from northeast Scotland with a Pleistocene diamict from southern Ontario, Canada in order to test if a statistical difference between diamicts can be recognized and used to separate differing types of diamicts/ diamictites. Th...