Introduction : The Laurentide Ice Sheet and its Significance

• Main Authors: Fulton, Robert J., Prest, Victor K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal 1987
• Subjects: geo; envir; Baie d'Hudson; Baie-d'Hudson; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/032676ar

The Laurentide Ice Sheet is a glacier complex that covered large parts of eastern, central and northern North America during the last glaciation. The Ice Sheet depressed the crust by at least 300 m and it held enough water to lower sea level 40-50 m. The Laurentide Ice Sheet was first viewed as a co...