Ice thickness measurements and their implications with respect to past and present ice volumes in the Canadian High Arctic ice caps

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Koerner, R. M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1977
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Baffin Bay; Ellesmere Island; Devon Island; Heiberg; Axel Heiberg Island; Baffin; Ice Sheet; Queen Elizabeth Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e77-237; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e77-237

The main ice caps on Devon Island, central and northeast Ellesmere Island, and Axel Heiberg Island were sounded using a 620 MHz radar. Ice depths were found to be generally between 300 and 800 m. The bedrock topography is everywhere very irregular. There is a pronounced difference between the thickn...