Post-glacial RSL changes and the demise of a local remnant Laurentide Ice-Sheet ice cap: A view from Anticosti island beach-ridges (Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada)

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Goslin, Jerome, Bernatchez, P., Barnett, R.L., Hétu, B., Didier, D., Béland, C., Dubé, J.
• Other Authors: Geo-Ocean (GEO-OCEAN), Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Canada; Raised Beach; Ice cap; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04203971; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107972

Widely spread worldwide, beach-ridge systems are established along prograding coastlines, either fostered by a falling Relative Sea-Level (RSL), by substantial sediment stocks being provided to the coastline, or by the combination of both agents. As such, they can form valuable archives of either la...