Reconstruction of late quaternary ice-flow directions, east central Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territory.

• Main Author: Collins, Karen Elizabeth.
• Other Authors: French, H.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 1993
• Subjects: Geology; Baffin Bay; Buchanan Bay; Cape Herschel; Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Kane; Nares; Pim Island; Rice Strait; Smith Sound; Wade Point; Baffin; Ice Sheet; Kane Basin; Nares strait; Smith sound
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6718; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-11412

This study identifies Late Quaternary glacial ice-flow direction in east-central Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., by the study of its composition and its relation to bedrock sources. The spatial distribution of five till types suggests a hypothesis which attempts to reconcile the Innuitian Ice Sheet model...