Ice-sheet erosion and the stripping of Tertiary regolith from Baffin Island, eastern Canadian Arctic

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 176-189

  Refsnider, Kurt A ^a,b   Miller, Gifford H ^b  

^a PRESCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Baffin Island; Clyde Foreland Formation; Meteoric 10Be; Pleistocene; Quaternary; Till weathering

Indexed keywords

BAFFIN ISLANDS; CHEMICAL INDEX OF ALTERATIONS; CLYDE FORELAND FORMATION; ICE SHEET DYNAMICS; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; SECONDARY CLAY MINERALS;

CLAY ALTERATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WEATHERING;

BERYLLIUM;

BEDROCK; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FORELAND BASIN; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; ICE SHEET; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MINERALOGY; PLEISTOCENE; REGOLITH; TERTIARY; WEATHERING;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; NUNAVUT;

EID: 84875262948     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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