Communications Earth & Environment (Oct 2022)

Evidence for an extensive ice shelf in northern Baffin Bay during the Last Glacial Maximum

  • Pierre-Olivier Couette,
  • Patrick Lajeunesse,
  • Jean-François Ghienne,
  • Boris Dorschel,
  • Catalina Gebhardt,
  • Dierk Hebbeln,
  • Etienne Brouard

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00559-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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A large moraine system extends along the continental slope of Baffin Island, Canada, according to swath bathymetry and acoustic profiler data, which suggests that an ice shelf of 500 m thickness covered Baffin Bay during the Last Glacial Maximum.