Mapping of meltwater features and De Geer moraines in central Nunavut, Canada from the high-resolution (2 m) ArcticDEM ...

• Main Authors: Livingstone, Stephen, Lewington, Emma, Clark, Christopher, Storrar, Robert, Sole, Andrew, Mcmartin, Isabelle, Dewald, Nico, Ng, Felix
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: The University of Sheffield 2020
• Subjects: 40602 Glaciology; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; 40606 Quaternary Environments; Nunavut; Canada; Moraine Ridge
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15131/shef.data.12315221.v1; https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Mapping_of_meltwater_features_and_De_Geer_moraines_in_central_Nunavut_Canada_from_the_high-resolution_2_m_ArcticDEM/12315221/1

The dataset contains shapefiles of eskers, moraines, meltwater channels and meltwater corridors. Manual digitisation of eskers and other meltwater landforms (e.g. meltwater channels and subglacial meltwater corridors) was undertaken in ArcGIS 10.4 using hillshaded Digital Surface Models (DSMs) follo...