The Amazon River Basin as an Analog for the Pre-Ice Age Bell River Basin of North America

• Main Authors: Vaught, Alexander C, Palenius, Emilia M., Power, Kevin P., Murray, Ashley M, Mitchell, Tara M
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks at University of Montana 2014
• Subjects: Bell River; Canada; Labrador Sea
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/umcur/2014/poster_1/19; https://scholarworks.umt.edu/context/umcur/article/1023/viewcontent/Complete_Poster_Turnin_Coppy.pdf

The pre-ice age Bell River basin of North America was comparable in size to the modern day Amazon basin of South America. In Miocene time, it drained most of Canada and one third of the North American continent before being defeated by tectonics, volcanism, and glaciation. Beginning about 2.5 millio...