Holocene fluctuations of Leffert Glacier and nearby outlet glaciers, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Blake, Weston
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2011
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Nunavut; Ellesmere Island; Canada; Benedict; Agassiz Ice Cap; Prince of Wales Icefield; Ekblaw; Baird Inlet; Leffert Glacier; Alfred Newton Glacier; Benedict Glacier; Ekblaw Glacier; Jokel Fiord; Newton Glacier; Parrish Glacier; Sawyer Bay; Stygge Glacier; Cape Herschel; glacier*; Ice cap; Polar Record; Tidewater
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247411000349; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247411000349

ABSTRACT Radiocarbon age determinations on marine shells in lateral moraines and other deposits several kms behind the present day termini of tidewater outlet glaciers from the Prince of Wales Icefield, east-central Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Arctic Canada, as well as tidewater glaciers from two nea...