Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in the Torngat Mountains, Northern Labrador

• Published in: Géographie physique et Quaternaire
• Main Author: McCoy, William D.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal 1983
• Subjects: Baffin Island; Cumberland Peninsula; Île de Baffin; Monts Torngat; Torngat Mountains; Baffin
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/032516ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/032516ar

Lichen measurements and other relative-age data were collected from deposits of several cirque glaciers in the Torngat Mountains of northern Labrador. Lichen growth stations were established, but no lichen-growth curve has yet been determined for the local area. However, moraines can be correlated b...