Surficial geology, Broughton Island-Padloping Island, Baffin Island, Nunavut : NTS 16-M, NTS16-N, and parts of NTS 26-P / [by] A.S. Dyke.: M183-1/23-2011E-PDF

"In 2009, as part of the GEM program 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 (28-12ka), 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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Department/Agency Canada. Natural Resources Canada.
Geological Survey of Canada.
Title Surficial geology, Broughton Island-Padloping Island, Baffin Island, Nunavut : NTS 16-M, NTS16-N, and parts of NTS 26-P / [by] A.S. Dyke.
Series title Canadian geoscience map ; No. 23
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Includes bibliographical references.
Includes abstract in French.
Publishing information Ottawa : Natural Resources Canada, c2013.
Author / Contributor Dyke, Arthur S.
Description 1 map : col.
ISBN 978-1-100-19079-2
Catalogue number
  • M183-1/23-2011E-PDF
Departmental catalogue number 288968
Edition Preliminary version
Cartographic data Scale 1:100,000
Subject terms Geological maps
Geomorphology
Surficial geology
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