Isotopic evidence for relic Pleistocene glacier ice on Victoria Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Ground ice masses are exposed in some areas of Prince Albert Peninsula, Victoria Island. Two of them were studied along the scarps of slumps during the summer of 1982. The ice was beneath a 1-m-thick Wisconsinan till and showed a clear subvertical banding. Sampling was done mainly for ice isotopic a...

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Main Authors: Lorrain, Reginald, demeur, philippe
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 1985
Subjects:
Glaciologie
Arctic
Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Prince Albert Peninsula
Arctic and Alpine Research
Arctic Archipelago
Victoria Island
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/94817
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Summary:Ground ice masses are exposed in some areas of Prince Albert Peninsula, Victoria Island. Two of them were studied along the scarps of slumps during the summer of 1982. The ice was beneath a 1-m-thick Wisconsinan till and showed a clear subvertical banding. Sampling was done mainly for ice isotopic analyses but also for particle analyses. These ground ice masses are most probably the first example cited in the literature of Wisconsinan glacier ice in the present-day unglaciated part of the Canadian Arctic. -from Authors SCOPUS: ar.j info:eu-repo/semantics/published

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