Ice Formed Beach Features from Lake St. Jean, Quebec

Features characteristic of polar beaches: ice-pusb ridges, ice-contact cusps, shore-ice kettles, residual marks left by melting ice, ice-rafted sediments, meltwater and wind features, occur on the beach at Val Jalbert, Lake St. Jean, Quebec. This example shows that the area covered by so-called ...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Main Authors: Dionne, Jean-Claude, Laverdière, Camille
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1972
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Arctic
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e72-082
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e72-082
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Summary:Features characteristic of polar beaches: ice-pusb ridges, ice-contact cusps, shore-ice kettles, residual marks left by melting ice, ice-rafted sediments, meltwater and wind features, occur on the beach at Val Jalbert, Lake St. Jean, Quebec. This example shows that the area covered by so-called 'polar beaches' is not restricted to the Arctic and the Antarctic regions.

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