Surficial geology, Pangnirtung south, Baffin Island, Nunavut / [by] A.S. Dyke. : M183-1/19-2011E-PDF

"In 2009, as part of the GEM project of the Geological Survey of Canada, Cumberland Peninsula east and southeast of the National Park was mapped. Mapping included several aspects of the regional Precambrian geology, as well as the Quaternary geology. Regional till was sampled for sedimentological and geochemical purposes, and moraines and other deposits were sampled for cosmogenic exposure dating. The eastern part of the peninsula is today an area of intensive alpine glaciation and evidently has experienced this style of glaciation throughout the Quaternary. During the last glacial maximum, alpine glaciers thickened to form regional ice divides over the mountains. Ice flow from these divides covered most, possibly all, of the region and supplied ice streams along several fiords. This local ice coalesced with the Laurentide Ice Sheet in Cumberland Sound. Despite possibly repeated glaciation, substantial areas show little or no sign of glacial erosion and retain Tertiary surfaces mantled with block fields and tors"--Abstract.

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Ministère/Organisme Canada. Natural Resources Canada.
Geological Survey of Canada.
Titre Surficial geology, Pangnirtung south, Baffin Island, Nunavut / [by] A.S. Dyke.
Titre de la série Canadian geoscience map ; No. 19
Type de publication Série - Voir l'enregistrement principal
Langue [Anglais]
Format Électronique
Document électronique
Note(s) Includes bibliographical references.
Includes abstract in French.
Information sur la publication [Ottawa?] : Natural Resources Canada, c2011.
Auteur / Contributeur Dyke, Arthur S.
Description 1 map : col.
ISBN 978-1-100-19074-7
Numéro de catalogue
  • M183-1/19-2011E-PDF
Numéro de catalogue du ministère 288964
Édition Preliminary version
Données cartographiques Scale 1:100,000
Descripteurs Geological maps
Geomorphology
Surficial geology
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