Deglaciation of the Cordillera of Western Canada at the end of the Pleistocene

• Published in: Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica
• Main Author: J.J. Clague
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Universidad de La Rioja 2017
• Subjects: deglaciation; cordilleran ice sheet; british columbia; yukon territory; geochronology; Geography (General); G1-922; Yukon; Canada; British Columbia; Labyrinth; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18172/cig.3232; https://doaj.org/article/0693500177b44285b81f0574c2d98253

Nearly all of what is now British Columbia and adjacent areas were covered by an ice sheet at the maximum of the Last Glaciation (MIS 2) about 18,000 years ago. By 11,000 years ago, the Cordilleran Ice Sheet had disappeared, a victim of warming climate, eustatic sea-level rise along its western marg...