Surficial geology of the Komie Creek map area and an investigation of an ice-contact glaciofluvial delta, northeast British Columbia (NTS 94P/05)
The Komie Creek map area was fully glaciated by the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) during the Late Wisconsinan Fraser Glaciation. Ice flow during the glacial maximum was towards the southwest, as indicated by the orientation of streamlined landforms on the Etsho Plateau. At some time after the Fraser Gl...
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ftuvicpubl:oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/3340 2023-05-15T16:41:28+02:00 Surficial geology of the Komie Creek map area and an investigation of an ice-contact glaciofluvial delta, northeast British Columbia (NTS 94P/05) Demchuk, Tania Ellen Levson, Victor M. Van der Flier-Keller, Eileen 2010 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3340 English en eng http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3340 Available to the World Wide Web glacial Komie Creek (B.C Cabin Creek (B.C.) glaciofluvial Thesis 2010 ftuvicpubl 2022-05-19T06:14:39Z The Komie Creek map area was fully glaciated by the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) during the Late Wisconsinan Fraser Glaciation. Ice flow during the glacial maximum was towards the southwest, as indicated by the orientation of streamlined landforms on the Etsho Plateau. At some time after the Fraser Glaciation maximum, the LIS divided into two lobes (upland and lowland). The subsequent landform assemblages, highlighted well in LiDAR imagery, provide evidence that the upland lobe retreated to the northeast and the lateral margin of the lowland lobe dropped to the southwest. Organic deposits are the dominant surficial material type in the Komie Creek map area. They have accumulated and been deposited on poorly drained clay and silt-rich morainal and glacio-lacustrine deposits. Morainal deposits are the next most common surficial material type in the area and dominate along the top of the Etsho Escarpment and in the northeast corner of the study area. Glaciofluvial deposits are rare. During ice retreat, an ice-marginal lake formed in the south-central part of the study area where the lowland lobe prevented drainage of meltwater out of the area. An aerially extensive landform, interpreted as an ice-contact glaciofluvial delta complex, was deposited into this dynamic glacial lake. The lake levels rose abruptly several times during delta deposition as a result of large west-flowing outburst floods in the Cabin Creek melt water channel, generated when a glacial lake breached its margins on or under the upland lobe. The delta is composed of several lobate landforms that sedimentologically are highly variable. This thesis presents a new, detailed 1:50,000-scale surficial geology map for the Komie Creek map area. This map was generated using aerial photographs, LiDAR DEMs, ground-based geophysics and field observations. This research also contributes to an increased understanding of the sedimentology and internal structure of ice-contact glaciofluvial deltas. Graduate Thesis Ice Sheet University of Victoria (Canada): UVicDSpace Etsho Escarpment ENVELOPE(-122.003,-122.003,59.250,59.250) Etsho Plateau ENVELOPE(-121.503,-121.503,59.250,59.250) Glacial Lake ENVELOPE(-129.463,-129.463,58.259,58.259) Komie Creek ENVELOPE(-122.086,-122.086,59.067,59.067) Marginal Lake ENVELOPE(163.500,163.500,-74.600,-74.600) |
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glacial Komie Creek (B.C Cabin Creek (B.C.) glaciofluvial |
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The Komie Creek map area was fully glaciated by the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) during the Late Wisconsinan Fraser Glaciation. Ice flow during the glacial maximum was towards the southwest, as indicated by the orientation of streamlined landforms on the Etsho Plateau. At some time after the Fraser Glaciation maximum, the LIS divided into two lobes (upland and lowland). The subsequent landform assemblages, highlighted well in LiDAR imagery, provide evidence that the upland lobe retreated to the northeast and the lateral margin of the lowland lobe dropped to the southwest. Organic deposits are the dominant surficial material type in the Komie Creek map area. They have accumulated and been deposited on poorly drained clay and silt-rich morainal and glacio-lacustrine deposits. Morainal deposits are the next most common surficial material type in the area and dominate along the top of the Etsho Escarpment and in the northeast corner of the study area. Glaciofluvial deposits are rare. During ice retreat, an ice-marginal lake formed in the south-central part of the study area where the lowland lobe prevented drainage of meltwater out of the area. An aerially extensive landform, interpreted as an ice-contact glaciofluvial delta complex, was deposited into this dynamic glacial lake. The lake levels rose abruptly several times during delta deposition as a result of large west-flowing outburst floods in the Cabin Creek melt water channel, generated when a glacial lake breached its margins on or under the upland lobe. The delta is composed of several lobate landforms that sedimentologically are highly variable. This thesis presents a new, detailed 1:50,000-scale surficial geology map for the Komie Creek map area. This map was generated using aerial photographs, LiDAR DEMs, ground-based geophysics and field observations. This research also contributes to an increased understanding of the sedimentology and internal structure of ice-contact glaciofluvial deltas. Graduate |
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Levson, Victor M. Van der Flier-Keller, Eileen |
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Demchuk, Tania Ellen |
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Surficial geology of the Komie Creek map area and an investigation of an ice-contact glaciofluvial delta, northeast British Columbia (NTS 94P/05) |
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Surficial geology of the Komie Creek map area and an investigation of an ice-contact glaciofluvial delta, northeast British Columbia (NTS 94P/05) |
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Surficial geology of the Komie Creek map area and an investigation of an ice-contact glaciofluvial delta, northeast British Columbia (NTS 94P/05) |
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Surficial geology of the Komie Creek map area and an investigation of an ice-contact glaciofluvial delta, northeast British Columbia (NTS 94P/05) |
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Surficial geology of the Komie Creek map area and an investigation of an ice-contact glaciofluvial delta, northeast British Columbia (NTS 94P/05) |
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surficial geology of the komie creek map area and an investigation of an ice-contact glaciofluvial delta, northeast british columbia (nts 94p/05) |
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ENVELOPE(-122.003,-122.003,59.250,59.250) ENVELOPE(-121.503,-121.503,59.250,59.250) ENVELOPE(-129.463,-129.463,58.259,58.259) ENVELOPE(-122.086,-122.086,59.067,59.067) ENVELOPE(163.500,163.500,-74.600,-74.600) |
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Etsho Escarpment Etsho Plateau Glacial Lake Komie Creek Marginal Lake |
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Etsho Escarpment Etsho Plateau Glacial Lake Komie Creek Marginal Lake |
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Ice Sheet |
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