Pleistocene Montane Glaciations in the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories

• Published in: Géographie physique et Quaternaire
• Main Authors: Duk-Rodkin, Alejandra, Hughes, Owen L.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal 1992
• Subjects: Arctic; Gayna River; Northwest Territories; Pacific; Ice Sheet; Inlandsis; Mackenzie mountains
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/032889ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/032889ar

During the Pleistocene the Mackenzie Mountains were affected by a series of glaciations. Through all the glaciations a single pattern seems to have been repeated: a Cordilleran ice sheet formed to the west of the continental divide and montane valley glaciers formed to the east. The montane glaciers...