Sam Ford Fiord : a study in deglaciation.

• Main Author: Smith, James E.
• Other Authors: Bird, J. (Supervisor)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: McGill University 1966
• Subjects: Glaciers > Nunavut > Baffin Island; Moraines > Nunavut > Baffin Island; Geography; Baffin Bay; Baffin Island; Nunavut; Sam Ford Fiord; Baffin
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=43552

During the summers of 1961 through 1964 field parties of the Geographical Branch, Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, conducted studies in the physical geography of north-central Baffin Island. While field research emphasized the glacial geomorphology of the area about the northwest margin of the Barnes Icecap, air photo interpretation over a much wider area revealed the existence of a series of major terminal and lateral moraines stretching for 640 km. (400 miles) in a belt roughly parallel to the heads of the Baffin Bay fiords (Map 1). [.]