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Author : Blake, W., Jr.
Date : 1978.
Title : Aspects of glacial history, Southeastern Ellesmere Island, District of Franklin
Publication : Current Research, Part A, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper
Issue : 78-1A
Page(s) : 175-182
Abstract
Field work around Makinson Inlet, Ellesmere Island, has revealed that erratics, striated rock surfaces, and marginal drainage channels are widespread. These features, plus the glacial sculpture on Bowman Island, show that a major outlet glacier formerly flowed eastward in Makinson Inlet, draining a significant mass of ice that lay to the west of the present-day ice caps. A fossil peat deposit indicates an ice-free interval >44,000 years (GSC-140-2) ago with a climate more favourable than that of the west today. During Holocene time the sea penetrated to the head of the west arm of Makinson Inlet by 8930 ± 100 years BP (GSC-2519) and to the head of the north arm by 7330 ± 80 years BP (GSC-1972)
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