The Glacial Hydrology of an Ice-dammed Lake, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T.

• Main Author: Blachut, Pamela Susan
• Other Authors: McCann, S.B., Geography
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Geography; Northwest Territories; Ellesmere Island; Dammed Lake; Siphon Creek; Ice cap; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9834

McMaster Lake is a 7.2 km² ice-dammed lake ponded against the margin of the Ellesmere Ice Cap, Ellesmere Island; Northwest Territories. The lake occupies a deep structural basin, and was found to be smictic, with a near isothermal temperature profile of 0.0-0.5ºC, and a year round 3m thick ice cover...