Canadian Prairies - Quaternary Stratigraphy and Glacial History

Andrews, J. T. 1987

The Late Wisconsin Glaciation and Deglaciation of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. In North America and Adjacent Oceans During the Last Deglaciation, edited by W. F. Ruddiman and H. E. Wright Jr, pp. 13-37. The Geology of North America Volume K-3. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Barendregt, R. W., and E. Irving 1998

Changes in the Extent of North American Ice Sheets During the Late Cenozoic. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 35:504-509.
AEU SCI QE 1 C212

Brown, P. A., and J. P. Kennett 1998

Megaflood Erosion and Meltwater Plumbing Changes During Last North American Deglaciation Recorded in Gulf of Mexico Sediments. Geology 26(7):599-602.
AEU SCI QE 1 G3455 Looks at sedimentology and included reworked nannofossils in cores from Orca Basin near mouth of Mississippi. Argue that the identification of terrigenous sediment inputs to such cores allows the possibility of linking terrestrial and marine records. Identify a pulse of fine-grained sediment in these cores around 12.6 - 12.0 K. Argue that this derives from clay-rich mid-continental deposits eroded by discharge from Laurentide ice-sheet in megaflood episodes (i.e., sediment not derived from glacial materials around ice margin). Paper is followed by a comment from P. F. Karrow (p. 479) who is particularly concerned with poorly-constrained chronology and lack of correlation between events in Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes Basin. Brown, Kennett, and Teller respond (pp. 479-480) defending their hypothesis and arguing that the chronologies are congruent.

Christiansen, E. A. 1979

The Wisconsinan Deglaciation of Southern Saskatchewan and Adjacent Areas. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 16:913-938.
AEU SCI QE 1 C212 Covers the area of southern Alberta (Cypress Hills) as well as central Saskatchewan (Nipawin).

Dyke, A. S. 2004

An Outline of North American Deglaciation with Emphasis on Central and Northern Canada. In Quaternary Glaciation - Extent and Chronology, Part II, edited by J. Ehlers and P. L. Gibbard, pp. 373-424. Developments in Quaternary Science, Volume 26. Elsevier, The Netherlands.
Includes a series of glacial retreat maps, based on a large database of C14 dates. Supercedes Dyke and Prest (1987). (10/07/2006).

Dyke, A. S., A. Moore, and L. Robertson 2003

Deglaciation of North America. Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Open File 1574, 32 maps, CD-ROM and 2 paper sheets.

Dyke, A. S., and V. K. Prest 1987

Paleogeography of Northern North America 18 000 - 5 000 Years Ago. Scale 1:12,500,000, in 3 sheets. Map 1703A. Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Dyke, A. S., and V. K. Prest 1987a

Late Wisconsinan and Holocene Retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Scale 1:5,000,000. Map 1702A. Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Hughes, T. 1987

Ice Dynamics and Deglaciation Models When Ice Sheets Collapsed. In North America and Adjacent Oceans During the Last Deglaciation, edited by W. F. Ruddiman and H. E. Wright Jr, pp. 183-220. The Geology of North America Volume K-3. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Provides information on estimated ice thicknesses. (24/08/2010).

Klassen, R. W. 1989

Quaternary Geology of the Southern Canadian Interior Plains. In Quaternary Geology of Canada and Greenland. Volume also published as Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, Vol. K-1, edited by R. J. Fulton, pp. 138-173. Geology of Canada No. 1. Geological Survey of Canada.
AEU SCI QE 185 Q17 1989

McMartin, I. 2000

Paleogeography of Lake Agassiz and Regional Post-glacial Uplift History of the Flin Flon Region, Central Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Journal of Paleolimnology 24:293-315.
AEU SCI QE 39.5 P3 J86

Patterson, C. J. 1998

Laurentide Glacial Landscapes: The Role of Ice Streams. Geology 26(7):643-646.
AEU SCI QE 1 G3455 Argues that the landscape (examined on a continental scale) exhibits two suites of landform assemblages - a lowland suite (streamlined forms) and an upland and ice-lobe margin suite (hummocky terrain and ice-thrust terrain). Argues that the lowland suite represents position of ice streams that fed ice lobes. Position of these was controlled by bedrock geology and topography. Argument is developed primarily from examination of landforms and deposits of the mid-continental Des Moines lobe.

Prest, V. K., J. A. Donaldson, and H. D. Mooers 2000

The Omar Story: The Role of Omars in Assessing Glacial History of West-central North America. Géographie physique et Quaternaire 54(3):257- 270.
AEU SCI G 1 R452 Omars are erratics derived from rocks of the Belcher Island Group in southeastern Hudson Bay. The paper assembles field evidence for their wide dispersal across central Canada and interprets their distribution in terms of glacial history.

Schreiner, B. T., L. A. Dredge, E. Nielsen, R. W. Klassen, M. M. Fenton, and J. R. Vickers 1987

The Quaternary Between Hudson Bay and the Rocky Mountains. XIIth INQUA Congress Field Excursion C-13. National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 45 pages.
The Saskatchewan portion of the trip has relevance to the SCAPE project area. Stop 49 features the Nipawin Delta and Lake Agassiz (p. 34) Stops 66 - 68 (p. 38) are in SW Saskatchewan. Stops 69 to 73 (p. 38-41, written by R. W. Klassen) focus on the Cypress Hills.

Teller, J. T. 1995

History and Drainage of Large Ice-Dammed Lakes Along the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Quaternary International 28:83-92.
AEU SCI QE 696 Q229

Teller, J. T., and D. W. Leverington 2004

Glacial Lake Agassiz: A 5000-year History of Change and its Relationship to the δ¹⁸O Record of Greenland. Geological Society of America Bulletin 116:729-742.
AEU SCI QE 1 G341

Teller, J. T., S. R. Moran, and L. Clayton 1980

The Wisconsinan Deglaciation of Southern Saskatchewan and Adjacent Areas: Discussion. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 17:539-541.
AEU SCI QE 1 C212 Takes issue with the chronology of Christiansen (1979), especially the "unacceptably early chronology of deglaciation" with the ice margin back in central Saskatchewan by 14,000 yr BP. Notes inconsistency between this interpretation and data from further southeast, especially relating to discharge of meltwater through Lake Agassiz.

Wolfe, S. A., D. J. Huntley, and J. Ollerhead 2004

Relict Late Wisconsinan Dune Fields of the Northern Great Plains, Canada. Géographie physique et Quaternaire 58(2-3):323- 336.
AEU SCI G 1 R452 Note: Volume published in 2006.