Magnetic and pebble fabrics and origin of the Sunnybrook Till, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Gravenor, C. P., Wong, T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1987
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Canada; Scarborough; glacier*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e87-193; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e87-193

The early Wisconsinan Sunnybrook Till is a mud-rich, pebble-poor, dark gray to gray–brown massive diamicton that is exposed in the Scarborough Bluffs, Ontario. It is interpreted here to be till.Previous separate, magnetic, and pebble fabric studies made on the till suggest a westward ice movement ra...