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: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2005
• Subjects: F850 Environmental Sciences; Arctic; Axel Heiberg Island; Canada; Greenland; Heiberg; Summer Island; Tuktoyaktuk; Antarc*; Antarctica; eskimo*; glacier; glacier*; glaciers; Ice; Ice Sheet; Iceland; permafrost; Alaska
• Online Access: http://eprints.brighton.ac.uk/1151/

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...