Reconstruction of late quaternary ice-flow directions, east central Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territory.

• Main Author: Collins, Karen Elizabeth.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 1993
• Subjects: Geology.; Baffin Bay; Buchanan Bay; Cape Herschel; Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Kane; Nares; Pim Island; Rice Strait; Smith Sound; Wade Point; Baffin; Ice Sheet; Kane Basin; Nares strait; Smith sound
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-11412; http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/6718

This study identifies Late Quaternary glacial ice-flow direction in east-central Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., by the study of its composition and its relation to bedrock sources. The spatial distribution of five till types suggests a hypothesis which attempts to reconcile the Innuitian Ice Sheet model...