| Title | Surficial geology, Icebound Lakes (southwest), Baffin Island, Nunavut |
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| Author | Little, E C; Holme, P J; Kerr, D E |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Geoscience Map 74, 2013, 1 sheet, https://doi.org/10.4095/292183 (Open Access) |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Edition | prelim. |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Maps | 1 map |
| Map Info. | surficial geology, materials, features, landforms, 1:100,000 |
| Projection | Universal Transverse Mercator Projection, UTM zone 17 (NAD83) |
| Media | digital; on-line |
| Related | NRCan photo(s) in this
publication |
| Related | This publication supercedes Little, E C; Holme, P J;
Hilchey, A C; Young, M; (2006). Draft surficial geology and aerial photograph mosaic, Icebound Lakes (southwest), Baffin Island, Nunavut, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 4950 |
| Related | This publication is superceded by Little, E C; Holme, P J;
Kerr, D E; (2015). Surficial geology, Icebound Lakes (southwest), Baffin Island, Nunavut, NTS 37-G/3, NTS 37-G/4, NTS 37-G5 and NTS 37-G6, Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Geoscience Map no. 74, ed. 2, Prelim. |
| File format | readme
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| File format | rtf; pdf; shp; xls; xml; JPEG2000 |
| Province | Nunavut |
| NTS | 37G/03; 37G/04; 37G/05; 37G/06 |
| Area | Baffin Island; Angajurjualuk Lake; Patlok Lake; Inuktorfik Lake |
| Lat/Long WENS | -80.0000 -78.0000 71.5000 71.0000 |
| Subjects | surficial geology/geomorphology; glacial deposits; glacial features; eolian deposits; alluvial deposits; lacustrine deposits; colluvial deposits; postglacial deposits; glaciolacustrine deposits;
glaciomarine deposits; glacial history; glaciofluvial deposits; Neogene; Holocene; Pleistocene; glaciers; silts; sands; gravels; clays; muds; slope deposits; debris flow deposits; landslide deposits; marine deposits; glacial deposits; tills; till
plains; till ridges; eskers; moraines; drumlinoids; glacial features; ice movement directions; glacial striations; glacial flutings; kames; meltwater channels; kettles; Cenozoic; Quaternary |
| Program | GEM: Geo-mapping for Energy and
Minerals, GEM Tri-Territorial Information management & databases (Tri-Territorial Surficial Framework) |
| Released | 2013 03 13 |
| Abstract | In 2002, 2003 and 2005, the Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office and the Geological Survey of Canada, in collaboration with Polar Continental Shelf Program, Dalhousie University, and University of Alberta,
undertook studies of northern Baffin Island to provide an improved understanding of the distribution, nature and chemistry of surficial materials, and glacial history of this region, much of which is extensively covered by thick glacial deposits.
Widespread till blanket and hummocky till are common in the map area, and locally meltwater channels dissected the till blanket. Ponding of glacial meltwater resulted in deposition of glaciolacustrine sediments. Some of the smaller preserved glaciers
are likely Holocene in age, rather than remnants from the continental ice sheet (Pleistocene), like the Barnes Ice Cap. A complex glacial history resulted from overprinting of both erosive and non-erosive basal thermal regimes at various stages of
the deglaciation, as well as overprinting of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)-related geomorphology. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 292183 |
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