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Author : Evans, D.J.A.
Date : 1987.
Title : The last glaciation on northwest Ellesmere Island
Publication : Abstracts of the 16th Arctic Workshop : research on the roof of the world, Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E9, April 30 - May 2, 1987. - Edmonton, Alta. : Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, University of Alberta, 1987
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Page(s) : 24-29.
Abstract
This paper is a summary of work undertaken to date on the Phillips Inlet/Wooton Peninsula area (82 N) on the northwest coast of Ellesmere Island. The field area is 2500 sq km, 60% of which is ice covered. The 200 sq km Cape Alfred Ernest ice shelf occupies the northwest coast of the Wootton Peninsula. There are three geologically controlled physiographic zones: an undulating plateau with an average height of 900 m, located south of Phillips Inlet and penetrated by four north-south trending tributary fiords; a steeply fretted cirque landscape, with summits over 1200 m high and containing several transection glaciers, on the south Wootton Peninsula; a 300 m high plateau, bounded by coastal cliffs 80-140 m high, on the north Wootton Peninsula. Glaciation level descends from 900 m at the fiord heads to sea level at Alert Point. Objectives include the mapping of surficial geology and geomorphology and the reconstruction of former glacial style. A local chronology will also be constructed using raised marine sediments. Observations on contemporary glaciers and ice shelves provide good analogues for the reconstruction of former glaciations.
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