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Record #120118:

Shell-bearing till along Smith Sound, Ellesmere Island--Greenland: age and significance / Weston Blake, Jr.

Title: Shell-bearing till along Smith Sound, Ellesmere Island--Greenland: age and significance / Weston Blake, Jr.
Author(s): Blake, Weston,
Date: 1992.
Abstract: Both coasts exhibit evidence that ice stream, derived from coalesced Innuitian and Greenland ice sheets over Kane Basin, sculptured Precambrian granite and deposited veneer of till, laden with marine shells, as it drained south to Baffin Bay. Dating suggests Late Wisconsinan age.
Notes:

Offprint: SGU. Series Ca. Forskningsrapporter. Vol. 81 :51-58.

Keywords: 551.33 -- Glacial geology.
551.336 -- Ice ages.
551.79 -- Quaternary.
551.332.212 -- Till or boulder clay.
E7 -- Glaciology: glacial geology and ice ages.
(*60) -- Arctic Ocean and adjacent waters.
(*626) -- Kane Basin, Kennedy Channel, Hall Basin and Robeson Channel.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-SHF: 551.33[1992]
SPRI record no.: 120118

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