Glaciation of the northern British Columbia continental shelf: the geomorphic evidence derived from multibeam bathymetric data

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: Shaw, John, Barrie, J. Vaughn, Conway, Kim W., Lintern, David G., Kung, Robert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; Chatham Sound; Douglas Channel; Goose Island; Hecate Strait; Juan Perez Sound; Perez; Queen Charlotte; Ice cap; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bor.12411; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fbor.12411; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/bor.12411; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/bor.12411

We describe a revised understanding of the extent and dynamics of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet on the continental shelf of northern British Columbia, Canada. During the Local Last Glacial Maximum ice streams occupied two of the three shelf‐crossing troughs in Queen Charlotte Sound (Goose Island Trough...