Late Glacial-Postglacial Foraminiferal Boundary in Sediments of Eastern Canada, Denmark and Norway

• Main Author: Vilks, Gustavs
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Association of Canada 1981
• Subjects: Canada; Labrador Shelf; Norway; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/GC/article/view/3246

Sediments in cores collected from the Scotian and Labrador shelves contain a faunal discontinuity where older benthic foraminiferal assemblages dominated by Elphidium excavatum f. clavata change to more diverse present day continental shelf assemblages. A similar change is found in Late Quaternary b...