Late Glacial Ice-Wedge Casts in Northern Nova Scotia, Canada

• Published in: Science
• Main Author: Borns, Harold W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1965
• Subjects: Breton Island; Canada; Valders; Ice; permafrost; wedge*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.148.3674.1223; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.148.3674.1223

Ice-wedge casts in northern Nova Scotia and the relation of the casts to the outwash that contains them indicate that the ice wedges formed in a permafrost environment after the accumulation of the outwash. This permafrost environment is tentatively correlated with pollen zone L-3 of the Gillis Lake...