Quaternary stratigraphy and geomorphology of the Lower Thompson Valley , British Columbia ...
The Thompson Valley between Spences Bridge and Lytton, where it joins the Fraser, merits attention because of the abundance of clear sections of late glacial and postglacial deposits in road and rail cuts, and its position as an important transition zone between the glacial lake deposition of the so...
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University of British Columbia
2011
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0102101 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0102101 |
| Summary: | The Thompson Valley between Spences Bridge and Lytton, where it joins the Fraser, merits attention because of the abundance of clear sections of late glacial and postglacial deposits in road and rail cuts, and its position as an important transition zone between the glacial lake deposition of the southern Interior and the dominantly fluvial aggradation of the Fraser. Most attention was paid to the stratigraphy of road and rail cuts, as the only morphological features preserved in the steep and narrow valley are terraces, fans, landslides and talus slopes. Quaternary deposits yield little evidence of the depositional environment prior to the last major advance of ice, but there is a good record of conditions during and following deglaciation. The last ice sheet, which wasted away by down-melting, left a thin mantle of till over the uplands and till deposits up to 50 ft. thick in the valley. The Lower Thompson Valley, close to the glacier sources of the Coast Mountains, was one of the last areas to be free of ... |
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