Pleistocene geology and geomorphology of the Smoking Hills Upland and lower Horton River Arctic coast of mainland Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Mathews, William H., Mackay, J. Ross, Rouse, Glenn E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1989
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Arctic; Canada; Mackenzie Delta; Broad Valley; Smoking Hills; Horton River; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e89-144; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e89-144

The Smoking Hills Upland and lower Horton River valley, on the Arctic coast of Canada 300 km east of the Mackenzie Delta, retain an extended record of subaerial erosion of nearly flat-lying Cretaceous shales. This erosion led to the development of (i) a very gently sloping low-relief upland surface...