Chronology and palaeoenvironmental implications of the ice‐wedge pseudomorphs and composite‐wedge casts on the Magdalen Islands (eastern Canada)

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: Rémillard, Audrey M., Hétu, Bernard, Bernatchez, Pascal, Buylaert, Jan‐Pieter, Murray, Andrew S., St‐Onge, Guillaume, Geach, Martin
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Fonds de recherche du Québec (FQRNT), Coastal Geoscience Chair, Canada Research Chair in Marine Geology
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Canada; Magdalen; Ice; permafrost; wedge*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bor.12125; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fbor.12125; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/bor.12125

The Magdalen Islands are a valuable terrestrial record, evidencing the complex glacial and periglacial history of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Thirteen structures interpreted as ice‐wedge pseudomorphs or composite‐wedge casts were observed at four sites on the southern Magdalen Islands and testify to t...