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III.—Glaciation of High Points in the Southern Interior of British Columbia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

George M. Dawson
Affiliation:
Assistant-Director of the Geological Survey of Canada.

Extract

In an article published in the Geological Magazine for August, 1888, an outline was presented of some facts resulting from recent investigations on the glaciation of British Columbia and adjacent regions, bearing more particularly on the flow of ice in a northerly direction brought to light by explorations in the Yukon district, but touching also on the south-eastern extension of the great western glacier-mass of the continent, which I have proposed to name the Cordilleran glacier. Field-work carried out by me during the summer of 1888 has resulted in the accumulation of many new facts relating to the southern part of the area, which was at one time covered by the Cordilleran glacier, from which it would appear that it may ultimately be possible not only to trace the various stages in the recession of the main front of the great confluent glacier beneath which the interior or plateau region of British Columbia was buried, but even to follow the later stages of its decline as it became broken up into numerous local glaciers confined to the valleys of the several mountain ranges which limit the plateau.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1889

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References

page 350 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. London, 1878, vol. xxvii. p. 380.Google Scholar

page 351 note 1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxxiv. p. 272.Google Scholar