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Lobate Stacked Moraines: Lake Melville, Labrador

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Glaciated Continental Margins

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In Lake Melville, Labrador (Fig. 1), Quaternary sedimentary deposits reflect retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the early Holocene, based on acoustic properties of sediment packages, distribution (isopach) patterns, and information from dated cores. Coastal gravel pits from isostatically-raised moraines have rounded boulders >10 m in diameter, and the large volume of deposited sediment together suggest a high discharge cf water through the ice sheet and into the Lake. During ice-retreat, there were a four small (a few kilometres) ice advances. Seismic units 3/4, 5, 7 and 9 appear as evidence of readvances of the ice margin. Stacked moraines formed and account far over 400 m of glacimarine sediments (Fig. 2).

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  1. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Campus Box 450, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA

    James P. Syvitski

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  1. Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austria, 8701 N. MoPac Expressway, Austin, TX, 78759, USA

    Thomas A. Davies

  2. Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Alexander Murray Bldg., St. John’s, NF, A1B 3X5, Canada

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  3. Marine and Coastal Geology, U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025-3591, USA

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Syvitski, J.P. (1997). Lobate Stacked Moraines: Lake Melville, Labrador. In: Davies, T.A., et al. Glaciated Continental Margins. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5820-6_33

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