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Drumlin Formation By Catastrophic Flooding
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Since 1983, several investigators have developed a theory of due to the release of meltwater that is believed to have accumulated beneath melting ice sheets. The proposed catastrophic sheet floods, as wide as the drumlin fields, formed the dr .... Middle of Term Paper
... about 150 km wide, and the total volume of the meltwater reservoir was estimated as about 84,000 km3.
The subglacial flood hypothesis for drumlin origin has been applied to drumlins in New York, southern Ontario, the northeast shore of Georgian Bay in Ontario, and to the interpretation of hummocky terrain in southern Alberta, and other areas, by various workers. Shaw suggested as many as 10 meltwater discharges, similar to those which caused the Livingstone Lake drumlins, would be needed to account for drumlin fields in other areas [Shoemaker, 1995, p. 3].
The subglacial meltwater hypothesis of Shaw et al has several parallels to an inter ... |
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