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

• 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

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