Internal architecture of mixed sand-and-gravel beach ridges: Miquelon-Langlade Barrier, NW Atlantic

• Published in: Marine Geology
• Main Authors: Billy, Julie, Robin, Nicolas, Hein, Christopher J., Certain, Raphaël, Fitzgerald, Duncan M.
• Other Authors: Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditérranéens (CEFREM), Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), Department of Earth and Environment Boston, Boston University Boston (BU)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2014
• Subjects: Regressive barrier; Beach ridge; Internal architecture; GPR; Wave-built facies; Gulf of Saint Lawrence; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Swash; Newfoundland; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://univ-perp.hal.science/hal-01266703; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2014.07.011

International audience The internal architecture of a beach-ridge system can provide clues into the processes involved in its formation. Detailed investigation of the mixed sand-and-gravel beach-ridge plain on the Miquelon-Langlade Barrier (northwest Atlantic Ocean, south of Newfoundland) provides a...