Basal ice facies and supraglacial melt-out till of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western Arctic Canada

• Main Authors: Murton, J.B., Whiteman, C.A., Waller, R.I., Pollard, W.H., Clark, I.D., Dallimore, S.R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Arctic; Axel Heiberg Island; Canada; Greenland; Heiberg; Summer Island; Tuktoyaktuk; Antarc*; Antarctica; eskimo*; glacier; glacier*; glaciers; Ice; Ice Sheet; Iceland; permafrost; Alaska
• Online Access: https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/publications/13d0632b-2d96-4c80-96c0-b6313b5bd10a

Glacially-deformed massive ice and icy sediments (MI–IS) in the Eskimo Lakes Fingerlands and Summer Island area of the Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western Arctic Canada, show, in the same stratigraphic sequences, features characteristic of both basal glacier ice and intrasedimental ice. Basal-ice featur...