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TitleSurficial geology, Clyde River, Baffin Island, Nunavut
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LicencePlease note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada supersedes any previous licences.
AuthorSmith, I RORCID logo; Irvine, M L; Bell, T
SourceGeological Survey of Canada, Canadian Geoscience Map 58, 2012, 1 sheet; 1 CD-ROM, https://doi.org/10.4095/289603 Open Access logo Open Access
LinksSurficial geology map collection
LinksCollection de données de géologie de surface
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Year2012
PublisherNatural Resources Canada
Editionprelim.
Documentserial
Lang.English
Maps1 map
Map Info.surficial geology, glacial deposits and landforms, 1:10,000
ProjectionUniversal Transverse Mercator Projection, UTM zone 19 (NAD83)
MediaCD-ROM; paper; on-line; digital
File formatreadme
File formatpdf; rtf; shp; xml; jpg; JPEG2000
ProvinceNunavut
NTS27F/08NW
AreaClyde River; Baffin Island
Lat/Long WENS -68.6792 -68.4500 70.5097 70.4556
Subjectssurficial geology/geomorphology; Nature and Environment; glacial deposits; glacial features; glacial landforms; lacustrine deposits; marine deposits; glaciofluvial deposits; glaciolacustrine deposits; glaciomarine deposits; sands; gravels; tills; moraines; Cenozoic; Quaternary
ProgramClimate Change Geoscience
Released2012 03 06
AbstractSurficial and periglacial-permafrost geology mapping was undertaken in Clyde River, Nunavut, to assess how different aspects of the physical environment pose risks and hazards to existing and future infrastructure development, and how climate change may further alter infrastructure vulnerability. This research was undertaken as part of Natural Resources Canada's Climate Change Geoscience program and the Nunavut Climate Change Partnership. Most of Clyde River's town and airport are built atop thick, terraced, raised marine and glaciomarine sandy sediments that contain saline permafrost. These deposits support abundant ice wedges. Widespread thermokarst depressions indicate extensive massive and segregated ice content. Moraines, meltwater channels and ice-contact deposits record a fiord-ward and westward retreat of Late Wisconsinan glaciers. New community developments extend upslope from the coastal terraced regions on washed sandy till and moraine complexes. Granular aggregate materials suitable for infrastructure development are rare, although glaciofluvial terrace deposits offer potential.
GEOSCAN ID289603

 
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