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Author : Fulton, R.J.
Date : 1991
Title : A conceptual model for growth and decay of the Cordilleran ice sheet.
Publication : Géographie Physique et Quaternaire
Issue : 45(3):
Page(s) : 281-286
Abstract
A conceptual model for growth and decay of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet has evolved over 100 years of Quaternary research in British Columbia. Physiography and location relative to prevailing westerly winds were the main factors controlling the style of glacier build up. The pattern of decay was controlled mainly by physiography. The central (highest) part of the ice sheet was hemmed in by mountains, consequently, snowline had to rise nearly to its present elevation before shrinking of the central core could begin. This meant that large ice masses in the interior of British Columbia stagnated and then shrank to remnants occupying major valleys and eventually were reduced to dead ice blocks buried in glacial debris
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