Pleistocene Glacial Lake Sequences in the Foothills, Southwestern Alberta, Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Alley, N. F., Harris, S. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1974
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Canada; Glacial Lake; Caldwell; Crowsnest; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e74-115; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e74-115

Three separate advances of Laurentide ice during the preWisconsin and Early Wisconsin led to the formation of proglacial lakes in the Foothills of southwestern Alberta. Lakes formed in both the advance and recessional stages, the most extensive occurring during the latter. Evidence of lakes formed b...