Coalescence of late Wisconsinan Cordilleran and Laurentide ice sheets east of the Rocky Mountain Foothills in the Dawson Creek region, northeast British Columbia, Canada

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Hickin, Adrian Scott, Lian, Olav B., Levson, Victor M.
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), British Columbia Pacific Leaders Scholarship
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2016
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; Dawson Creek; Rocky Mountain Foothills; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2016.02.005; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589416000193?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589416000193?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400000168

Geomorphic, stratigraphic and geochronological evidence from northeast British Columbia (Canada) indicates that, during the late Wisconsinan (approximately equivalent to marine oxygen isotope stage [MIS] 2), a major lobe of western-sourced ice coalesced with the northeastern-sourced Laurentide Ice S...