Glacio-isostatic rebound rates from in-situ cosmogenic chlorine-36 dating of raised marine beaches in Makinson inlet, eastern Ellesmere island

• Main Author: Drinkard, Sally Lyn
• Other Authors: Zreda, Marek G.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Arizona. 1999
• Subjects: Arctic; Ellesmere Island; Makinson Inlet; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626778

Ellesmere Island, in the Canadian Arctic, and adjacent sea were covered by ice during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 20-10 ky ago). Postglacial rebound rates, indic ative of ice sheet configuration, glacial and deglacial chronologies, and rheologic proper ties of the underlying mantle, were determin...