Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Flow patterns in the central North American ice sheet

  • Article
  • Published:

From Nature

View current issue Submit your manuscript

Abstract

Patterns of glacial dispersal of lithologically distinctive erratics around Hudson Bay show the central portion of the North American Laurentide ice sheet to have been made up of at least two land-based centres, one that grew and dissipated in Keewatin, and one that grew and dissipated in Nouveau Quebec–Labrador.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. White, W. A. Geol. Soc. Am. 83, 1037 (1972).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Hughes, T., Denton, G. H. & Grosswald, M. G. Nature 266, 596 (1977).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  3. Sugden, D. E. J. Glaciol. 21, 367 (1978).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Shilts, W. W. Boreas 6, 203 (1977).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Klassen, R. A. & Shilts, W. W. Inst. Min. Metal, Prosp. Areas of Glac. Ter. 80 (1977).

  6. DiLabio, R. N. W. & Shilts, W. W. Geol. Surv. Can. Pap. 77–1A, 479 (1977).

  7. Prest, V. K., Grant, D. R. & Rampton, V. N. Geol. Surv. Can. Map 1253A (1970).

  8. Donaldson, J. A. Geol. Surv. Can. Pap. 64–20, 1 (1965).

  9. Dimroth, E., Baragar, W. R. A., Bergeron, R. & Jackson, G. D. Geol. Surv. Can. Pap. 70–40, 45 (1970).

  10. Sanford, B. V., Grant, A. C., Wade, J. A. & Barss, M. S. Geol. Surv. Can. Map 1401A (1979).

  11. Shilts, W. W., Cunningham, C. M. & Kaszycki, C. A. Geology 7, 537 (1979).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  12. Hillaire-Marcel, C., Cah. Géogr. Québ. 20, 185 (1976).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  13. Dionne, J-C. Rev. Geogr. Montreal 28, 453 (1974).

    Google Scholar 

  14. Hardy, L. thesis, McGill Univ. (1976).

  15. Lee, H. A. Geol. Soc. Am. 70, 219 (1959).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  16. McDonald, B. C. & Shilts, W. W. Geol. Soc. Am. 76, 683 (1971).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  17. Bell, R. Geol. Surv. Can. A. Rep. 1886 pt G. 1 (1887).

  18. Prest, V. K. Geol. Surv. Can. Pap. 63–66, 1 (1963).

  19. McDonald, B. C. Geol. Surv. Can. Pap. 68–53, 78 (1969).

  20. Skinner, R. G. Bull. geol. Surv. Can. 225, 1 (1973).

    Google Scholar 

  21. Hughes, O. L. Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Pap. 84, 535 (1965).

  22. Tyrrell, J. B. Ont. Bur. Mines 22 pt 1, 161 (1913).

    Google Scholar 

  23. Andrews, J. T. & Falconer, G. Can. J. Earth Sci. 6, 1263 (1969).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  24. Lee, H. A., Craig, B. G. & Fyles, J. G. Geol. Soc. Am. 68, 1760 (1957).

    Google Scholar 

  25. Andrews, J. T. Geol. Surv. Can. Pap. 68–53, 49 (1969).

  26. Bird, J. B. Acta geogr. Univ. lodz. 24, 75 (1970).

    Google Scholar 

  27. Vincent, J-S. & Hardy, L. Géogr. Phys. Quat. 31, 357 (1977).

    Google Scholar 

  28. Hall, D. H. Geol. Surv. Can. Pap. 68–53, 337 (1969).

  29. Boulton, G. S., Jones, A. S., Clayton, K. M. & Kenning, M. J. British Quarernary Studies, Recent Advances 231 (Clarendon, Oxford, 1977).

    Google Scholar 

  30. Prest, V. K. Geol. Surv. Can. Econ. Rep. 1, 676 (1970).

    Google Scholar 

  31. Jackson, G. D. Geol. Surv. Can. Pap. 60–20, 1 (1960).

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Terrain Sciences Division, Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Canada, K1A 0EB

    W. W. Shilts

Authors
  1. W. W. Shilts
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Shilts, W. Flow patterns in the central North American ice sheet. Nature 286, 213–218 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/286213a0

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/286213a0

  • Springer Nature Limited

This article is cited by

Search

Navigation