La moraine frontale de Sakami, Québec subarctique

The Sakami Moraine, 630 km long, forms the largest accumulation of unconsolidated material in subarctic Québec. It stretches between the southern tip of Lake Mistassini and the mouth of the Great Whale River, forming a semicircular arc centered in the middle of Québec. It is composed of glacio-fluvi...

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Published in:Géographie physique et Quaternaire
Main Author: Hardy, Léon
Format: Text
Language:French
Published: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal 1982
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spelling fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10.7202/032469ar 2023-05-15T16:22:51+02:00 La moraine frontale de Sakami, Québec subarctique Sakami frontal moraine, Quebec subarctic Hardy, Léon 1982-01-01 https://doi.org/10.7202/032469ar http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/032469ar fr fre Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal Érudit doi:10.7202/032469ar http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/032469ar undefined Géographie physique et Quaternaire geo hist Text https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_18cf/ 1982 fttriple https://doi.org/10.7202/032469ar 2023-01-22T17:31:23Z The Sakami Moraine, 630 km long, forms the largest accumulation of unconsolidated material in subarctic Québec. It stretches between the southern tip of Lake Mistassini and the mouth of the Great Whale River, forming a semicircular arc centered in the middle of Québec. It is composed of glacio-fluvial and proglacial materials usually forming vast deltaic plains or large asymmetric ridges 8 km x 6 km x 40 m thick. The Sakami Moraine is a morpho-stratigraphic unit of prime importance in the déglaciation history of the James Bay hydrographie basin. It shows the position occupied by the eastward retreating New-Québec glacier when glacial Lake Ojibway drained and the Tyrrell Sea invaded the lowlands. It also demarcates two styles of ice retreat, one in contact with a deep lacustrine water body where a rapid ice front retreat was occurring mostly by icebergs calving from a locally floating ice margin, the other one in a subaerial environment or in contact with a shallower marine body where the melting of an ice margin resting on its bed was resulting in slower ablation. The Sakami Moraine was in its building phase 7900 14C years ago Avec ses quelque 630 km de longueur, la moraine frontale de Sakami constitue la forme glaciaire la plus importante du Québec subarctique. Elle s'étire entre le sud du lac Mistassini et l'embouchure de la grande rivière de la Baleine en décrivant un arc de cercle dont le point central est situé au centre du Québec. Elle se compose de matériaux fluvio-glaciaires et proglaciaires qui forment le plus souvent de vastes plaines deltaïques ou de longues crêtes dissymétriques dont les dimensions peuvent atteindre 8 km x 6 km x 40 m. La moraine de Sakami constitue une unité morpho-stratigraphique de première importance dans l'histoire de la déglaciation du bassin hydrographique de la baie James. Elle localise la position occupée par le glacier du Nouveau-Québec, qui se retirait vers l'est, lors du drainage du lac glaciaire Ojibway et de l'invasion de la mer de Tyrrell. Par cette position, elle ... Text Grande Rivière de la Baleine Great Whale River La Grande Rivière Subarctic subarctique* James Bay Unknown Baie James ENVELOPE(-80.500,-80.500,53.500,53.500) Baleine ENVELOPE(140.012,140.012,-66.649,-66.649) Glacial Lake ENVELOPE(-129.463,-129.463,58.259,58.259) Grande rivière de la Baleine ENVELOPE(-77.783,-77.783,55.267,55.267) la Baleine ENVELOPE(140.012,140.012,-66.649,-66.649) La Grande Rivière ENVELOPE(-79.000,-79.000,53.834,53.834) Tyrrell ENVELOPE(-69.512,-69.512,-69.634,-69.634) Géographie physique et Quaternaire 36 1-2 51 61
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description The Sakami Moraine, 630 km long, forms the largest accumulation of unconsolidated material in subarctic Québec. It stretches between the southern tip of Lake Mistassini and the mouth of the Great Whale River, forming a semicircular arc centered in the middle of Québec. It is composed of glacio-fluvial and proglacial materials usually forming vast deltaic plains or large asymmetric ridges 8 km x 6 km x 40 m thick. The Sakami Moraine is a morpho-stratigraphic unit of prime importance in the déglaciation history of the James Bay hydrographie basin. It shows the position occupied by the eastward retreating New-Québec glacier when glacial Lake Ojibway drained and the Tyrrell Sea invaded the lowlands. It also demarcates two styles of ice retreat, one in contact with a deep lacustrine water body where a rapid ice front retreat was occurring mostly by icebergs calving from a locally floating ice margin, the other one in a subaerial environment or in contact with a shallower marine body where the melting of an ice margin resting on its bed was resulting in slower ablation. The Sakami Moraine was in its building phase 7900 14C years ago Avec ses quelque 630 km de longueur, la moraine frontale de Sakami constitue la forme glaciaire la plus importante du Québec subarctique. Elle s'étire entre le sud du lac Mistassini et l'embouchure de la grande rivière de la Baleine en décrivant un arc de cercle dont le point central est situé au centre du Québec. Elle se compose de matériaux fluvio-glaciaires et proglaciaires qui forment le plus souvent de vastes plaines deltaïques ou de longues crêtes dissymétriques dont les dimensions peuvent atteindre 8 km x 6 km x 40 m. La moraine de Sakami constitue une unité morpho-stratigraphique de première importance dans l'histoire de la déglaciation du bassin hydrographique de la baie James. Elle localise la position occupée par le glacier du Nouveau-Québec, qui se retirait vers l'est, lors du drainage du lac glaciaire Ojibway et de l'invasion de la mer de Tyrrell. Par cette position, elle ...
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title La moraine frontale de Sakami, Québec subarctique
title_short La moraine frontale de Sakami, Québec subarctique
title_full La moraine frontale de Sakami, Québec subarctique
title_fullStr La moraine frontale de Sakami, Québec subarctique
title_full_unstemmed La moraine frontale de Sakami, Québec subarctique
title_sort la moraine frontale de sakami, québec subarctique
publisher Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal
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ENVELOPE(140.012,140.012,-66.649,-66.649)
ENVELOPE(-79.000,-79.000,53.834,53.834)
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Baleine
Glacial Lake
Grande rivière de la Baleine
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La Grande Rivière
Tyrrell
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Great Whale River
La Grande Rivière
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subarctique*
James Bay
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La Grande Rivière
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