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Author : Evans, D.J.A.
Date : 1986.
Title : Quaternary geology of Phillips Inlet, northwest Ellesmere Island
Publication : 15th Annual Arctic Workshop, April 24-26, 1986, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. - Boulder, Colo. : INSTAAR, University of Colorado, 1986
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Page(s) : 20.
Abstract
Phillips Inlet is located at 82 N in the northwest corner of Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada. The Inlet is a major fault-controlled, fiord trending N.W. - S.E. It is approximately 50 km long, 13 km wide at the mouth and 3 km wide at the narrowest point. Four tributary fiords along the Inlet's southern flank trend N - S and range from 15-20 km in length and rarely exceed 1.5 km in width. All of these re-entrants have steep walls and penetrate a mountainous landscape reaching over 1700 m asl. Approximately 50% of the area is ice covered containing plateau ice caps, cirque and transection glaciers and a large glacier ice, ice-shelf of ca. 150 sq km on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Many smaller glaciers calve into the Inlet and may represent contemporary analogues of former glacial style. The objective of this study is the reconstruction of former glaciations in Phillips Inlet based on the mapping of its surficial geology and geomorphology, and the determination of relative sea level changes. This represents an evaluation of the "full glacial sea" recognised by England (1983) and Bednarski (1983) on northeast and northern Ellesmere Island. ... Shells collected in growth position and relating to local marine limits will provide a chronology of deglaciation and emergence from the full glacial sea. Few driftwood samples were collected and these were mostly at sea level. The lack of older, higher driftwood may be explained by pervasive sea ice throughout the Holocene. However a driftwood sample at 55 m asl. penetrated one of the fiord heads.
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