Nature and origin of a Pleistocene-age massive ground-ice body exposed in the Chapman Lake moraine Complex, central Yukon Territory, Canada

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Lacelle, Denis, Lauriol, Bernard, Clark, Ian D., Cardyn, Raphaelle, Zdanowicz, Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2007
• Subjects: Yukon; Canada; Ogilvie; Ogilvie Mountains; Blackstone Plateau; Chapman Lake; glacier*; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2007.05.002; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589407000683?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589407000683?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400014186

Abstract A massive ground-ice body was found exposed in the headwall of a thaw flow developed within the Chapman Lake terminal moraine complex on the Blackstone Plateau (Ogilvie Mountains, central Yukon Territory), which is contemporaneous to the Reid glaciation. Based on visible cryostructures in t...