Late Wisconsin (Late Foxe) Glacial Extent in Pangnirtung Fiord - Cumberland Sound Area, Baffin Island, Canada

Régions: Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut

étiquettes: physical sciences, geology, soil, glaciology, sedimentology, ground ice, mapping

chercheur principal: Davis, P. Thompson (6)
Nᵒ de permis: 10089
Organisation: Department of Natural Sciences, Bentley College
Année(s) de permis: 1992 1991 1990
Délivré: janv. 01, 1990
Équipe de projet: Mel Reasoner; John Stires

Objectif(s): To map and survey glacial abrasion limits in the Pangnirtung Pass and Pangnirtung Fiord areas to determine the direction and vertical extent of ice flow; to describe soil profiles and collect soil samples; to analyze soil samples; to retrieve cores of lacustrine sediments to provide minimum limiting radiocarbon ages for the glacial abrasion limits and the Duval moraines; to reconstruct late Wisconsin ice profiles in the area based on relative and numerical age data to determine ice volumes and the relationship with grounded ice on the floor of Cumberland Sound;

Description du projet: The Researcher and his team will map and survey glacial abrasion limits, collect, describe and analyze soil samples from the Pangnirtung Pass and Pangnirtung Fiord areas to determine the direction and vertical extent of ice flow.