Major end moraines of Younger Dryas age on Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Canadian Arctic: Implications for paleoclimate and for formation of hummocky moraine

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 601-619

  Dyke, Arthur S ^a   Savelle, James M ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; MORAINE; PALEOCLIMATE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CANADA;

EID: 0033867859     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e99-118     Document Type: Article

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