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Author : Edlund, S.A.
Date : 1985
Title : Lichen-free zones as Neoglacial indicators on western Melville Island, District of Franklin
Publication : Current Research, Part A, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper
Issue : 85-1A:
Page(s) : 381-390.



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Abstract

Extensive lichen-free zones occur adjacent to several small glaciers on the plateau of western Melville Island. These zones are generally snow-free for at least a few weeks every summer. It is suggested that the zones developed during a period when perennial snow and ice covered more than six times the present area of ice, down to 400 m elevation. This probably coincided with expansion of ice caps and snow fields during the Little Ice age elsewhere in the Arctic

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Bibliography of Canadian Geomorphology