Landform assemblages produced by the Laurentide Ice Sheet in northeastern British Columbia and adjacent Northwest Territories — constraints on glacial lakes and patterns of ice retreatThis article is one of a selection of papers published in this Special Issue on the theme Geology of northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta: diamonds, shallow gas, gravel, and glaciers.
The Laurentide Ice Sheet reached the Canadian Cordillera during the last glacial maximum in northeastern British Columbia and adjacent Northwest Territories and all regional drainage to unglaciated areas in the north was dammed by the ice. Converging ice-flow patterns near the mountain front suggest...
Published in: | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |
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2008
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e07-053 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/E07-053 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/E07-053 |