Heavy-mineral dispersal and deposition in sandy deltas of glacial Lake Quinebaug, Connecticut

Description:

Two deltas in the lake had similar depositional parameters but separate source terranes. Interaction between source and depositional factors determined the mineralogy of each foreset bed.

subjects: Connecticut,  Geology, Stratigraphic,  Heavy minerals,  Heavy-minerals,  Lake Quinebaug,  Lake sedimentation,  Lake sediments,  Pleistocene,  Quinebaug, Lake,  Stratigraphic Geology,  Sedimentation and deposition

Places: Connecticut,  Lake Quinebaug

Times: Pleistocene