Microsedimentological evidence of vertical fluctuations in subglacial stress from the northwest sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, Northwest Territories, Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Rice, Jessey M., Menzies, John, Paulen, Roger C., McClenaghan, M. Beth
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2019
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Northwest Territories; Canada; Pine Point; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2018-0201; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjes-2018-0201; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjes-2018-0201

The past-producing Pine Point lead–zinc mining district, Northwest Territories, Canada, provides a unique opportunity to study the role of glacial dynamics in a thick, continuous till succession that has not been influenced by the underlying bedrock topography. Parts of the Pine Point mining distric...