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

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Authors: Julian B. Murton, Mark D. Bateman, Alice M. Telka, Richard Waller, Colin Whiteman, Svetlana Kuzmina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Mackenzie River; Summer Island; Tuktoyaktuk; Ice Sheet; Mackenzie river; Porcupine River; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1946

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...