Late Quaternary glacial history of Lake Hazen Basin and eastern Hazen Plateau, northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Smith, I Rod
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1999
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Nunavut; Ellesmere Island; Canada; Greenland; Lake Hazen; Robeson Channel; glacier; glacier*; Ice Sheet; Robeson channel
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e99-046; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e99-046

The glacial history of the broad interior of northeastern Ellesmere Island is first documented here. Studies of glacial geomorphology and marine and lacustrine sedimentology indicate that the region was inundated by cold-based ice emanating from the Grant Land Mountains sector of the Innuitian Ice S...