| Title | Surficial geology, Conn Lake (northwest), Baffin Island, Nunavut |
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| Author | Utting, D J; Huscroft, C A |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5612, 2008, 1 sheet; 1 CD-ROM, https://doi.org/10.4095/225602 (Open Access) |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Maps | 1 map |
| Map Info. | surficial geology, surficial materials and landforms, 1:100,000 |
| Media | paper; CD-ROM; digital; on-line |
| File format | readme / lisez-moi
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| File format | pdf (Adobe® Reader®); e00 (ESRI® ArcExplorer(TM)); shp; aep; txt; JPEG2000 |
| Province | Nunavut |
| NTS | 37E/11; 37E/12; 37E/13; 37E/14 |
| Area | Baffin Island; Rimrock Lake; Isortoq River |
| Lat/Long WENS | -76.0000 -74.0000 71.0000 70.5000 |
| Subjects | surficial geology/geomorphology; Neogene; Holocene; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Miocene; glacial deposits; glaciofluvial deposits; glaciomarine deposits; glaciolacustrine deposits; depositional environment;
glaciers; cirques; glacial history; overburden thickness; topography; silts; sands; gravels; clays; muds; deltas; beach deposits; postglacial deposits; eolian deposits; alluvial deposits; alluvial plains; lacustrine deposits; colluvial deposits;
slope failures; slope deposits; debris flow deposits; marine deposits; ice contact deposits; tills; hummocks; glacial landforms; eskers; moraines; drumlinoids; roches moutonnees; glacial features; ice movement directions; glacial striations; glacial
flutings; crag and tail; kames; meltwater channels; kettles; ice margins; landforms; escarpments; shorelines; glacial lakes; organic materials; bedrock geology; frost heaving; stratification; cross-stratification; glaciation; deglaciation; Cenozoic;
Quaternary; Tertiary |
| Illustrations | images |
| Released | 2008 07 18 |
| Abstract | The surficial materials in the northwest portion of the Conn Lake map area relate to glaciation and include deglacial landforms and deposits. The upland areas are predominantly exposed bedrock and till.
Some of the till deposits have large permafrost polygons. The valleys are dominated by deglacial features, such as meltwater channels and ice dammed lake deposits. The Isortoq River valley contained a large glacial lake that formed along a retreating
paleo-Barnes Ice Cap margin. The retreating margin formed hundreds of De Geer (or cross-valley) moraines that dominate the geomorphology of the valley. Some small glaciers still exist in the map area; the extent of their recent retreat is evident
from their margins mapped from aerial photographs (ca. 1958) and Landsat imagery (ca. 2000). |
| GEOSCAN ID | 225602 |
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