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Glaciation of the north-western part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2017

W. S. B. Paterson
W. S. B. Paterson*
Affiliation:
Polar Continental Shelf Project, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Journal of Glaciology , Volume 9 , Issue 56 , 1970 , pp. 286
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Copyright © International Glaciological Society 1970

Sir,

In a recent paper (Reference PatersonPaterson, 1969), I stated that the islands in the north-western part of the Archipelago are marked “unglaciated” on the Glacial map of Canada. I am grateful to Dr W. Blake, Jr for pointing out that, whereas my statement is true for the 195R edition of the map, it is not true for the latest (1968) edition. On the 1968 map, only Ranks Island and a small part of southern Melville Island are marked “unglaciated”. It is now believed that the remainder of the islands were covered by a large. ice sheet during the last glaciation (Reference BlakeBlake, 1970).

References

Blake, W. Jr. 1970 Studies of glacial history in Arctic Canada. 1, Pumice, radiocarbon dates, and differential postglacial uplift in the eastern Queen Elizabeth Islands. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 2. Pt, 2. p. 634–64. Google Scholar
Paterson, W.S.B. 1969 The Meighen Ice Cap, Arctic Canada: accumulation, ablation and flow. Journal Glacialogy, Vol. 8, No. 54, p. 341–52. Google Scholar