Reconnaissance surficial geology, Lynx Lake, Northwest Territories, NTS 75-J / [Authors: D.E. Kerr ... [et al.]]. : M183-1/139-2013E-PDF

"The Lynx Lake map area is characterized by three transitional zones based on distribution and nature of surficial sediments. In the southwest, large areas of bedrock and till veneer predominate. Northwest and central regions exhibit an increase in overburden cover, notably fluted till blanket. The northeast and southeast map areas have a greater cover of till veneer, till blanket which is fluted and drumlinized, and hummocky till. The later may contain large, subdued moraine ridges of variable orientation. The entire map area is dissected by glaciofluvial corridors consisting of eskers, ice-contact sediments and scoured bedrock, trending westward in the north and west-southwestward in the central and southern regions. The earliest ice flow, inferred from rare striae and subtle fluted landforms in the eastern half of the map area, was southwestward. The last dominant ice flow was westward in the north, grading slightly west-southwestward, in the central and southern regions. In the Whitefish Lake-Garde Lake area, as well as Lynx Lake-Howard Lake area, glaciolacustrine beaches and washing limits are developed on the flanks of some drumlinoids and glaciofluvial sediments. They occur up to 25-30 m above current lake levels but the extent of these short-lived glacial lakes remains uncertain"--Abstract.

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