Late Pleistocene and Holocene glaciation and deglaciation of Melville Peninsula, Northern Laurentide Ice Sheet

• Published in: Géographie physique et Quaternaire
• Main Author: Dredge, Lynda A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal 2001
• Subjects: geo; envir; Baffin Island; Committee Bay; Foxe Basin; Melville Peninsula; Rae; Rae Isthmus; Baffin; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7202/008300ar; http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/008300ar

Melville Peninsula lies within the Foxe/Baffin Sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Pre-Foxe/Pre-Wisconsin ice may have covered the entire peninsula. Preserved regolith in uplands indicates a subsequent weathering interval. Striations and till types indicate that, during the last (Foxe) glaciation, a...