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- environments. Dropstones differ from erratics found in glacial till in that they are deposited in a lake or marine environments. Dropstones may also be...
- have occurred during this so-called "cold snap", as evidenced by glacial dropstones in the western parts of the Tethys Ocean and the expansion of calcareous...
- northeast of Lake Huron, with giant layers of now-lithified till beds, dropstones, varves, outwash, and scoured ba****t rocks. Correlative Huronian deposits...
- sediments deposited by melting icebergs or disintegrating ice sheets (dropstones) volcanic origin lahars lahar m**** flows entering the ocean marine origin...
- present or on older sediments. The ejecta at Kilbourne Hole contains dropstones launched as bombs, usually greater than 2.5 inches across and a large...
- modern Iberian Peninsula, based on the existence of Hauterivian ice-rafted dropstones in Iberia. Cold conditions are also known to have existed in the Southern...
- glacial movements for periods prior to record retention. Also known as dropstones, these can be correlated with ocean temperatures and levels to better...
- Pangaea (the southernmost portion of Pangaea was Gondwana). Ice-rafted dropstones sourced from Russia are indicators of this northern boundary. The Jur****ic...
- the ac****ulation of snow, though there may have been mountain glaciers. Dropstones and glendonites in northeastern Siberia during the Early to Middle Jur****ic...
- name-bearing section at Gaskiers (Newfoundland) is packed full of striated dropstones. Its δ13C values are very low (pushing 8‰), consistent with a period of...