More on Deep Glacial Erosion by Continental Ice Sheets and Their Tongues of Distributary Ice

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Author: White, William A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1988
• Subjects: Gulf of Boothia; Lancaster Sound; Pacific; Prince Regent Inlet; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(88)90019-1; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589488900191?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589488900191?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400019207

High latitude intracontinental seaways occupy great troughs carved by broad tongues of inland ice as it debouched to deep marine water. Such troughs occur in glaciated coasts, but not in stable, nonglaciated ones. Where ice flowed along the walls of troughs whose adjacent uplands held local glaciers...