Stratigraphy, paleoecology, and glacial history of the Gillam area, Manitoba

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Nielsen, Erik, Morgan, Alan V., Morgan, Anne, Mott, R. J., Rutter, N. W., Causse, C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1986
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Hudson Bay; Hudson; Amery; Glacial Lake; Tyrrell; Gillam; Long Spruce; Ice Sheet; Nelson River
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e86-153; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e86-153

Sections along the Nelson River in northern Manitoba, outcropping upstream and downstream from Limestone Dam, record a long succession of late Quaternary events. The oldest sediment exposed consists of sandy, nonfossiliferous Sundance till of northwestern provenance and related to a Kansan or Illino...