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Glacial deposits and landforms at the terminus of a Laurentide ice stream, Oneida Lake, New York, from multichannel seismic reflection data

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Nicholas Zaremba Open the ORCID record for Nicholas Zaremba [Opens in a new window]  and
Christopher A. Scholz
Nicholas Zaremba*
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Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York13244, USA
Christopher A. Scholz
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Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York13244, USA
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*Corresponding author at: Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York13244, USA. E-mail address: [email protected] (N. Zaremba).
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Abstract

The deglaciation record of the Ontario Lowland and Mohawk Valley of North America is important for constraining the retreat history of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, end-Pleistocene paleoclimate, and ice-sheet processes. The Mohawk Valley was an important meltwater drainage route during the last deglaciation, with the area around modern Oneida Lake acting as a valve for meltwater discharge into the North Atlantic Ocean. The Mohawk Valley was occupied by the Oneida Lobe and Oneida Ice Stream during the last deglacial period. Multichannel seismic reflection data can be used to generate images of preglacial surfaces and internal structures of glacial bedforms and proglacial lake deposits, thus contributing to studies of deglaciation. This paper uses 217 km of offshore multichannel seismic reflection data to image the entire Quaternary section of the Oneida basin. A proglacial lake and paleo-calving margin is interpreted, which likely accelerated the Oneida Ice Stream, resulting in elongated bedforms observed west of the lake. The glacial bedforms identified in this study are buried by proglacial lake deposits, indicating the Oneida basin contains a record of glacial meltwater processes, including a 60-m-thick proglacial interval in eastern Oneida Lake.

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GlaciationMultichannel seismic reflection dataPleistoceneCalving marginOlder DryasProglacial lake depositsNorth America
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Quaternary Research , Volume 106 , March 2022 , pp. 129 - 146
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