Glacial sediments and landforms, southern Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, Canada.

• Main Author: Sharpe, David Robert.
• Other Authors: French, H. M.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 1992
• Subjects: Geology; Canada; Northwest Territories; Wollaston; glacier*; Ice; permafrost; Thermokarst; Victoria Island; victoria island; wedge*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7846; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-7002

Wollaston Peninsula and most of southern Victoria Island comprise Palaeozoic carbonate lowlands, scarps, and tableland situated between rises and arches of underlying Precambrian sedimentary and igneous rocks. Quaternary sediments are hummocky, thick and ice-cored near escarpments where ice flow res...