First recognition of a Laurentide Ice Stream : Robert Bell on Hudson Strait

• Published in: Géographie physique et Quaternaire
• Main Author: Brookes, Ian A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal 2007
• Subjects: Antarctic; Hudson Bay; Baffin Island; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Canada; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Ungava Bay; Foxe Basin; Antarc*; Antarctique*; Baffin; glacier*; Ice Sheet; Ice Stream A
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/038993ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/038993ar

In papers published in 1895 and 1901, and in undated notes for a 1907 paper he did not deliver or publish, Robert Bell of the Geological Survey of Canada interpreted the pattern of glacial striae, stossing of rock knobs, and surficial sediment composition along the margins of Hudson Strait, between...