Variable history of Quaternary ice-sheet advance across the Beaufort Sea Margin, Arctic Ocean

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 131-134

  Batchelor, C L ^a   Dowdeswell, J A ^a   Pietras, J T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BP Canada Energy Group ULC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; CLIMATIC CHANGES; GLACIAL HISTORY; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE STREAMS; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SHELF BREAK;

DYNAMICS; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ICE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLACIER ADVANCE; ICE STREAM; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MARINE SEDIMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; TROUGH;

AMUNDSEN GULF; ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; BEAUFORT SHELF; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; MACKENZIE; MCCLURE STRAIT; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

EID: 84873442530     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33669.1     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Blasco, S.M., Fortin, G., Hill, P.R., O'Connor, M.J., and Brigham-Grette, J. 1990, The late Neogene and Quaternary stratigraphy of the Canadian Beaufort continental shelf, in Grantz, A., Johnson, L., and Sweeney, J.F., eds., The Geology of North America, v. L, The Arctic Ocean Region: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, p. 491-502
2. Dixon, J., and Dietrich, J.R. 1990, Canadian Beaufort Sea and adjacent land areas, in Grantz, A., Johnson, L., and Sweeney, J.F., eds., The Geology of North America, v. L, The Arctic Ocean Region: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, p. 239-257
3. Dowdeswell, J.A., and Fugelli, E.M.G. 2012, The seismic architecture and geometry of grounding-zone wedges formed at the marine margins of past ice sheets: Geological Society of America Bulletin, In press., doi:10.1130/B30628.1
4. Dowdeswell, J.A., Ó Cofaigh, C., Noormets, R., Larter, R.D., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Benetti, S., Evans, J., and Pudsey, C.J. 2008, A major trough-mouth fan on the continental margin of the Bellingshausen Sea, West Antarctica: The Belgica Fan: Marine Geology, v. 252, p. 129-140, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2008.03.017
5. Dyke, A.S., Andrews, J.T., Clark, P.U., England, J.H., Miller, G.H., Shaw, J., and Veillette, J.J. 2002, The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 21, p. 9-31, doi:10.1016/S0277-3791(01)00095-6
6. England, J.H., Furze, M.F.A., and Doupé, J.P. 2009, Revision of the NW Laurentide Ice Sheet: Implications for palaeoclimate, the northeast extremity of Beringa, and Arctic Ocean sedimentation: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 28, p. 1573-1596, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.04.006
7. Jakobsson, M., Macnab, R., Mayer, M., Anderson, R., Edwards, M., Hatzky, J., Schenke, H.-W., and Johnson, P. 2008, An improved bathymetric portrayal of the Arctic Ocean: Implications for ocean modelling and geological, geophysical and oceanographic analyses: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 35, p. L07602, doi:10.1029/2008GL033520
8. Jakobsson, M. and 17 others, 2010, An Arctic Ocean ice shelf during MIS 6 constrained by new geophysical and geological data: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 29, p. 3505-3517, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.03.015
9. Murton, J.B. 2009, Stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of Richards Island and the Eastern Beaufort continental shelf during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, v. 20, p. 107-125, doi:10.1002/ppp.647
10. Murton, J.B., French, H.M., and Lamothe, M. 1997, Late Wisconsinan erosion and aeolian deposition, Summer and Hadwen Islands, Mackenzie Delta area, western Canadian Arctic: Optical dating and implications for glacial chronology: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 34, p. 190-199, doi:10.1139/e17-015
11. Niessen, F., Matthiessen, J., and Stein, R. 2010, Sedimentary environment and glacial history of the northwest passage (Canadian Arctic Archipelago) reconstructed from high-resolution acoustic data: Polarforschung, v. 79, p. 65-80
12. Rampton, V.N. 1988, Quaternary geology of the Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, Northwest Territories: Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 423, 98 p
13. Stein, R., Matthiessen, J., Niessen, F., Krylov, R., Nam, S., and Bazhenova, E. 2010, Towards a better (litho-) stratigraphy and reconstruction of Quaternary paleoenvironment in the Amerasian Basin (Arctic Ocean): Polarforschung, v. 79, p. 97-121
14. Stokes, C.R., Clark, C.D., Darby, D.A., and Hodgson, D. 2005, Late Pleistocene ice export events into the Arctic Ocean from the M'Clure Strait Ice Stream, Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Global and Planetary Change, v. 49, p. 139-162, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2005.06.001
15. Stokes, C.R., Clark, C.D., and Winsborrow, M. 2006, Subglacial bedform evidence for a major palaeo-ice stream in Amundsen Gulf and its retreat phases, Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Journal of Quaternary Science, v. 21, p. 399-412, doi:10.1002/jqs.991
16. Vincent, J.-S. 1983, La géologie du quaterrnaire et la géomorphologie de l'lle Banks, Arctique canadien: Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 405, 118 p
17. Vincent, J.-S., and Prest, V.K. 1987, The Early Wisconsinan history of the Laurentide ice sheet: Geographie Physique et Quaternaire, v. 41, p. 199-213
18. Vorren, T.O., Laberg, J.S., Blaume, F., Dowdeswell, J.A., Kenyon, N.H., Mienert, J., Rumohr, J., and Werner, F. 1998, The Norwegian-Greenland Sea continental margins: Morphology and late Quaternary sedimentary processes and environment: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 17, p. 273-302, doi:10.1016/S0277-3791(97)00072-3