Diamictic sediments within high Arctic lake sediment cores: evidence for lake ice rafting along the lateral glacial margin

• Published in: Sedimentology
• Main Author: Smith, I. Rod
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2000
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Lake
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3091.2000.00347.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-3091.2000.00347.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-3091.2000.00347.x

Sediment cores from six small lake basins in the Canadian high Arctic reveal a gravel‐rich (≤30% by weight) to gravel‐poor (≥2%) diamict facies underlying massive, post‐glacial, clayey silt. Ten other lakes contain a second diamict facies within what are interpreted to be glaciolacustrine sedimentar...