Postglacial emergence along northern Nares Strait

• Published in: Meddelelser om Grønland. Geoscience
• Main Author: England, John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland /Danish Polar Center 1982
• Subjects: Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Nares; Ice Sheet; Nares strait
• Online Access: https://tidsskrift.dk/meddrgroenland_geosci/article/view/139568

During the last glaciation much of northern Nares Strait remained an ice-free corridor separating the northeast Ellesmere Island and northwest Greenland ice sheets. The disproportionate size of these ice sheets resulted in the lithosphere being differentially loaded on either side of this prominent...