Timing of advance and basal condition of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last glacial maximum in the Richardson Mountains, NWT

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Lacelle, Denis, Lauriol, Bernard, Zazula, Grant, Ghaleb, Bassam, Utting, Nicholas, Clark, Ian D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2013
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Northwest Territories; Richardson Mountains; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2013.06.001; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589413000586?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589413000586?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400005962

This study presents new ages for the northwest section of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) glacial chronology from material recovered from two retrogressive thaw slumps exposed in the Richardson Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada. One study site, located at the maximum glacial limit of the LIS i...