| Title | Surficial geology and sea level history of Bathurst Island, Northwest Territories |
| Download | Download (whole publication) |
| Author | Bednarski, J M |
| Source | Interior Plains and Arctic Canada/Plaines intérieures et région arctique du Canada; by Geological Survey of Canada; Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research no. 1996-B, 1996 p. 61-66, https://doi.org/10.4095/207432 (Open Access) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in Geological Survey of
Canada; (1996). Interior Plains and Arctic Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research no. 1996-B |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Nunavut |
| NTS | 68G; 68H; 69A; 69B; 79A/09 |
| Area | Bathurst Island; Ile Vanier |
| Lat/Long WENS | -105.0000 -96.0000 77.0000 75.0000 |
| Subjects | surficial geology/geomorphology; paleontology; environmental geology; glaciers; glacial stages; ice sheets; glacial deposits; invertebrates; fossils; sea level fluctuations; climate; radiocarbon dates;
radiometric dates; deglaciation; Laurentide Ice-sheet; Pelecypoda; Quaternary |
| Illustrations | sketch maps |
| Program | Mineral and Energy Resource Assessment
(MERA) |
| Released | 1996 02 01 |
| Abstract | Recent field investigations have been undertaken to map the surficial geology of Bathurst and adjacent islands. Glacial geomorphology indicates that the area was covered by extensive ice caps during the
last glaciation. These glaciers probably contacted the Laurentide Ice Sheet to the south, however, a larger ice mass in Penny Strait may have impinged onto northeastern Bathurst Island and coalesced with the ice caps. A survey of raised marine
shorelines suggests that the magnitude of emergence was considerably less than previously thought and that the pattern of regional isobases needs revision. Marine pelecypods at elevations well above the marine limit were likely transported there by
glaciers overriding pre-existing marine sediments. More work on the directions of ice movement along eastern Bathurst Island is necessary to determine the nature of these readvances. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 207432 |
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