The Great Preglacial “Bell River” of North America: Detrital Zircon Evidence for Oligocene–Miocene Fluvial Connections Between the Colorado Plateau and Labrador Sea

• Published in: Geoscience Canada
• Main Authors: Sears, James W., Beranek, Luke P.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Geological Association of Canada 2022
• Subjects: Bell River; Cenozoic; Colorado Plateau; Detrital zircon; Grand Canyon; Labrador Sea; Paleogeography; Arctic; Hudson Bay; Canada; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Arctique*
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1088623ar; https://doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2022.49.184

The idea of a great pre-glacial river that drained much of North America into the Arctic waters of modern Canada was first suggested in 1895 by Robert A. Bell. In the 1970s, petroleum exploration in Hudson Strait and the Labrador Sea located the massive, submerged delta of what is now known as the B...