Ice Sheets and Ice Streams: Thoughts on the Cordilleran Ice Sheet Symposium

This paper comments on preconceptions about what is meant by the terms "Cordilleran Ice Sheet" and "ice stream". Contemporary Antarctic ice streams are described. The Laurentian Channel and throughs crossing the continental ice shelf between Vancouver and Queens Charlotte Islands...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Géographie physique et Quaternaire
Main Author: Mathews, William H.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal 1991
Subjects:
geo
envir
Antarctic
Le Plateau
Reine
Antarc*
Ice Sheet
Ice Shelf
Inlandsis
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7202/032873ar
http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/032873ar
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Summary:This paper comments on preconceptions about what is meant by the terms "Cordilleran Ice Sheet" and "ice stream". Contemporary Antarctic ice streams are described. The Laurentian Channel and throughs crossing the continental ice shelf between Vancouver and Queens Charlotte Islands are suggested as candidates for the tracks of past ice streams. On discute ici de préconceptions sur la signification des termes « Inlandsis de la Cordillère » et « courant glaciaire ». On décrit d'abord les courants glaciaires contemporains de l'Antarctique. On désigne ensuite le chenal laurentien et les dépressions qui traversent le plateau continental entre Vancouver et l'archipel de la Reine-Charlotte comme des endroits susceptibles d'avoir été, dans le passé, la voie de courants glaciaires.

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