Les glissements rétrogressifs de fonte de la rivière Willow, Territoires du Nord-Ouest, Canada: Caractéristiques sédimentologiques, distribution spatiale et temporelle

• Main Author: Bjornson, Jean
• Other Authors: Lauriol, Bernard
• Format: Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 2003
• Subjects: Physical Geography; Geology; Environmental Sciences; Canada; Richardson Mountains; Active layer thickness; Ice; Ice Sheet; permafrost; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; Thermokarst
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26444; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-18187

The Willow River (Richardson Mountains, N.W.T.) drainage basin is located at the western limit reached by the Laurentide ice-sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). The icesheet covered the eastern fringe of the Mountains and deposited a lodgment till. The textural maturity and the lithology of...