Early to mid Wisconsin Fluvial Deposits and Palaeoenvironment of the Kidluit Formation, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, Western Arctic Canada

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Authors: Murton, Julian B., Bateman, Mark D., Telka, Alice M., Waller, Richard, Whiteman, Colin, Kuzmina, Svetlana
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Mackenzie River; Canada; Tuktoyaktuk; Summer Island; Ice Sheet; Mackenzie river; Permafrost and Periglacial Processes; Porcupine River; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1946; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fppp.1946; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ppp.1946

Abstract The Kidluit Formation (Fm) is a fluvial sand deposit that extends regionally across the Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western Arctic Canada. It was deposited by a large river flowing north into the Arctic Ocean before development of a cold‐climate sandy desert and later glaciation by the Laurenti...