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Author : Falconer, G., Ives, J.D., Loken, O.H. and Andrews, J.T
Date : 1965.
Title : Major end moraines in eastern and central Arctic Canada
Publication : Geographical Bulletin
Issue : 7:
Page(s) : 137-154.
Abstract
A system of end moraines more than 2,000 km long , has been identified by field investigation and from air photographs. It runs parallel to the northeast coast of Baffin Island approximately along the line of the fjord head; it extends down the west coast of Melville Peninsula and across northern Keewatin and demarcates the border of a late-Wisconsin ice sheet that was centered over Foxe Basin and Hudson Bay between 8,000 and 9,000 years ago. The various units of the system are described and related radiocarbon dates are discussed. A tentative correlation with the Cochrane Readvance and with moraine units in northwestern Ontario and in the Lake Athabasca-Cree Lake area is made. The names 'Cockburn Glacial Phase' and 'Cockburn Moraine system' are proposed for use on a regional scale; this involves a re-definition of the Cocburn moraine of northeast Baffin Island as originally proposed by Ives and Andrews (1963).
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