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Author : Antevs, E.
Date : 1931.
Title : Late-glacial correlations and ice recession in Manitoba
Publication : Geological Survey of Canada Memoir
Issue : 168
Page(s) : 76 p.
Abstract
The disappearance of glacial Lake Ojibway in northern Ontario and Quebec, when the ice front stood north of Cochrane, sets practically a limit to the extension of the varved clay chronology in the region south of James Bay. A study of the varved clays from the last stages of glacial Lake Agassiz in northern Manitoba was, therefore, carried out during the summer of 1929. In order to correlate the Late-Glacial ice borders and events in northern Manitoba with those in western Quebec and eastern Ontario, the existing data concerning the direction of the ice flow, the moraines, etc., were compiled. This led to an attempt at a general correlation of the Late-Glacial of the East and the Middle West. The results of these various investigations are herewith presented. Furthermore, the probable correlation of the Late- Glacial of North Amerlca and of Europe, as well as the basis of attempted correlations between clay varves from Amerlca and Europe, are discussed in some detail. A suggestion for a division of the late Quaternary of North America is also presented.
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