On the extent and thickness of the Innuitian Ice Sheet: a postglacial-adjustment approach

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Tushingham, A. M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1991
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ellesmere Island; Thores River; Ice Sheet; Queen Elizabeth Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e91-022; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e91-022

There is at present a controversy concerning the extent and thickness of the Innuitian Ice Sheet during the last glacial maximum (ca. 18 000 BP). Here, both a thick, extensive Innuitian Ice Sheet and a thin, limited ice sheet are isostatically modelled by employing disc-shaped elements and a radiall...