Paleohydraulics of the last outburst flood from glacial Lake Agassiz and the 8200 BP cold event

• Main Authors: Garry K. C. Clarke A, David W. Leverington B, James T. Teller C, Arthur S. Dyke D
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Hudson Bay; Hudson; Glacial Lake; Hudson Strait; Tyrrell; Ice Sheet; Labrador Sea
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.384.6712; http://www.eos.ubc.ca/research/glaciology/research/Publications/ClarkeLeveringtonTellerDyke(QSR-2004).pdf

During the last deglaciation of North America, huge proglacial lakes formed along the southern margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. The largest of these was glacial Lake Agassiz, which formed about 11:7 14 C kyr and drained into Hudson Bay about 7:7 14 C kyr ð8:45 cal kyrÞ: Overflow from these lakes...