Early to mid Wisconsin Fluvial Deposits and Palaeoenvironment of the Kidluit Formation, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, Western Arctic Canada

• Main Authors: Murton, J.B., Bateman, M.D., Telka, A.M., Waller, R., Whiteman, C., Kuzmina, S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Mackenzie River; Canada; Tuktoyaktuk; Summer Island; Ice Sheet; Mackenzie river; Permafrost and Periglacial Processes; Porcupine River; Tundra
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/129213/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/129213/8/Text_revised_4_Nov_2016.pdf; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/129213/9/Supporting_Information_4_Nov_2016.pdf; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/129213/11/Murton_Fig._1.pdf; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/129213/10/Murton_Fig._2.pdf; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/129213/12/figure3%20%281%29.jpg

The Kidluit Formation (Fm) is a fluvial sand deposit that extends regionally across the Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western Arctic Canada. It was deposited by a large river flowing north into the Arctic Ocean before development of a cold‐climate sandy desert and later glaciation by the Laurentide Ice Sh...