Glacial advances and stratigraphy in Otto Fiord and adjacent areas, Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Bednarski, Jan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1995
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Northwest Territories; Ellesmere Island; Nansen Sound; Otto Fiord; White Point; Hvitland Peninsula
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e95-006; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e95-006

Hvitland and Svartfjeld peninsulas have been glaciated at least two or three times since the Late Pliocene. The earliest recognized glaciation is constrained by amino acid ratios on in situ pelecypods from marine sediments stratigraphically overlying till in Otto Fiord. High amino acid ratios sugges...