Late-glacial regional ice-flow patterns in eastern Ontario: Discussion

1981 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 1385-1386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Hillaire-Marcel
Keyword(s):  
Late Glacial ◽  
Flow Patterns ◽  
Ice Flow ◽  
Eastern Ontario

Late-glacial regional ice-flow patterns in eastern Ontario

1980 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 1439-1453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson R. Gadd
Keyword(s):  
Lake Ontario ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Flow Patterns ◽  
Ice Flow ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Working Hypothesis ◽  
New Information ◽  
Eastern Ontario ◽  
Extended Discussion

Reconnaissance of eastern Ontario regions lying between the late-glacial positions of Lake Iroquois and the Champlain Sea provides new information on ice-flow patterns as represented by striae and other streamline phenomena. This is related to the distribution of ice-marginal deposits and to structurally controlled topography. Two ice lobes, Madawaska Highland lobe and Ottawa – Lake Ontario lobe, are identified, and the Oak Ridges interlobate moraine system is extended. Discussion of apparent sequences of events allows for a new working hypothesis, including the concept of a calving bay in Ottawa Valley, for the development of the Champlain Sea, and for the timing of the drainage of Lake Iroquois. It reconciles radiocarbon dates previously thought to be anomalous.

Late-glacial flow patterns, deglaciation, and postglacial emergence of south-central Baffin Island and the north-central coast of Hudson Strait, eastern Canadian Arctic

1996 ◽  
Vol 33 (11) ◽  
pp. 1499-1510 ◽  
Author(s):  
William F. Manley
Keyword(s):  
High Tide ◽  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Flow Patterns ◽  
Sediment Provenance ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Ice Cap ◽  
The North ◽  
South Central ◽  
Ice Stream

New georaorphic, sedimentologic, and chronologic data are used to reconstruct late Quaternary ice-sheet flow patterns, deglaciation, and isostatic uplift along the largest marine trough connecting the Laurentide Ice Sheet with the North Atlantic Ocean. The Lake Harbour region was targeted for study given its potential to record flow from several ice-dispersal centers. Striations and sediment provenance indicators define flow patterns. Thirty-four radiocarbon dates constrain a chronology of events. Centuries or millennia(?) before deglaciation, a southeast-flowing ice stream impinged on southernmost Big Island, as recorded by a single striation site and delimited in extent by geomorphic evidence of cold-based ice. During the Cockburn Substagc (9000–8000 BP), the region was scoured by southward to southwestward flow from an ice cap on Meta Incognita Peninsula, as recorded by 60 striation sites along 200 km of coastline. Carbonate erratics are uncommon in till above the marine limit. Where present, they suggest that southward flow reworked older drift. At about 8200 BP, the area was dcglaciated, and the marine limit was established at elevations of 67–141 m above high tide. Iceberg calving and sediment discharge from an ice margin in Ungava Bay, Hudson Bay, or Foxe Basin then blanketed the area with limestone-rich glaciomarinc sediment. Afterward, the region experienced slow but sustained emergence. The data revise the maximum lateral extent of a Late Wisconsinan ice stream in Hudson Strait and emphasize the extent of a late-glacial ice cap on western Meta Incognita Peninsula.

Landscapes of cold-centred Late Wisconsinan ice caps, Arctic Canada

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur S. Dyke
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Thermal Conditions ◽  
Flow Patterns ◽  
Flow Conditions ◽  
Ice Flow ◽  
Zone Width ◽  
Ice Caps ◽  
Ice Cap ◽  
Late Wisconsinan ◽  
Subglacial Meltwater

Uplands of the Canadian Arctic Islands supported Late Wisconsinan ice caps that developed two landscape zones reflecting basal thermal conditions regulated by long-sustained ice flow patterns. Central cold-based zones protected older glacial and preglacial landscapes while peripheral warm-based zones scoured and otherwise altered their beds. Some geomorphic effects are independent of ice cap scale, others vary with scale. For ice caps of 30 km radius or more, scour-zone width remains proportionally constant to flowline length under similar flow conditions. But intensity of scouring, ice moulding of drift and rock eminences, size and abundance of subglacial meltwater features, and development of end moraines increase with ice cap size. Ice caps became entirely cold based early in retreat as the boundary between warm and cold ice shifted outward, probably because ice thinned and flow slackened. The frozen margins deflected meltwater, thus maximizing formation of lateral meltwater channels throughout retreat. The landform record of cold-based glaciers in this region is easily interpreted. Hence, regional ice sheet models invoking or based on the premise that cold-based ice leaves no geomorphic record seem untenable.

Late Quaternary glacial and interglacial environments of the Nechako River - Cheslatta Lake area, central British Columbia

2001 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 719-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Plouffe ◽  
V M Levson
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Lake Area ◽  
Glacial Lakes ◽  
Ice Flow ◽  
Coast Mountains ◽  
Quaternary Stratigraphy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Quaternary History

The Quaternary stratigraphy of the Nechako River – Cheslatta Lake area of central British Columbia is described and interpreted to reconstruct the late Quaternary history of the region. Exposures of glacial and nonglacial sediments deposited prior to the last glaciation (Fraser) are limited to three sites. Pollen assemblages from pre-Fraser nonglacial sediments at two of these sites reveal forested conditions around 39 000 BP. During the advance phase of the Fraser Glaciation, glacial lakes were ponded when trunk glaciers blocked some tributary valleys. Early in the glaciation, the drainage was free in easterly draining valleys. Subsequently, the easterly drainage was blocked either locally by sediments and ice or as a result of impoundment of the Fraser River and its tributaries east of the study area. Ice generally moved east and northeast from accumulation zones in the Coast Mountains. Ice flow was influenced by topography. Major late-glacial lakes developed in the Nechako River valley and the Knewstubb Lake region because potential drainage routes were blocked by ice.

scholarly journals Ice-flow patterns and precise timing of ice sheet retreat across a dissected fjord landscape in western Norway

2019 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 139-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Mangerud ◽  
Anna L.C. Hughes ◽  
Tone Herfindal Sæle ◽  
John Inge Svendsen
Keyword(s):  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Flow Patterns ◽  
Ice Flow ◽  
Precise Timing ◽  
Western Norway

scholarly journals Laurentide Ice-Flow Patterns: A Historical Review, and Implications of the Dispersal of Belcher Islands Erratics

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor K. Prest
Keyword(s):  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Flow Patterns ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Laurentide Ice Sheet ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Hudson Bay ◽  
Ice Flow ◽  
Flow Models ◽  
The North

ABSTRACTThis paper deals with the evolution of ideas concerning the configuration of flow patterns of the great inland ice sheets east of the Cordillera. The interpretations of overall extent of Laurentide ice have changed little in a century (except in the Arctic) but the manner of growth, centres of outflow, and ice-flow patterns, remain somewhat controversial. Present geological data however, clearly favour the notion of multiple centres of ice flow. The first map of the extent of the North American ice cover was published in 1881. A multi-domed concept of the ice sheet was illustrated in an 1894 sketch-map of radial flow from dispersal areas east and west of Hudson Bay. The first large format glacial map of North America was published in 1913. The binary concept of the ice sheet was in vogue until 1943 when a single centre in Hudson Bay was proposed, based on the westward growth of ice from Labrador/Québec. This Hudson dome concept persisted but was not illustrated until 1977. By this time it was evident from dispersal studies that the single dome concept was not viable. Dispersal studies clearly indicate long-continued westward ice flow from Québec into and across southern Hudson Bay, as well as eastward flow from Keewatin into the northern part of the bay. Computer-type modelling of the Laurentide ice sheet(s) further indicates their complex nature. The distribution of two indicator erratics from the Proterozoicage Belcher Island Fold Belt Group help constrain ice flow models. These erratics have been dispersed widely to the west, southwest and south by the Labrador Sector of more than one Laurentide ice sheet. They are abundant across the Paleozoic terrain of the Hudson-James Bay lowland, but decrease in abundance across the adjoining Archean upland. Similar erratics are common in northern Manitoba in the zone of confluence between Labrador and Keewatin Sector ice. Scattered occurences across the Prairies occur within the realm of south-flowing Keewatin ice. As these erratics are not known, and presumably not present, in Keewatin, they indicate redirection and deposition by Keewatin ice following one or more older advances of Labrador ice. The distribution of indicator erratics thus test our concepts of ice sheet growth.

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