DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.07.026
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85051532124
论文题名: Drumlinized tunnel valleys in south-central Ontario
作者: Mulligan R.P.M. ; Bajc A.F. ; Eyles C.H.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2018
卷: 197 起始页码: 49
结束页码: 74
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Drumlins
; Geomorphology
; Glacial
; Glaciology
; Ice streams
; Laurentide ice sheet
; North America
; Pleistocene
; Tunnel valleys
Scopus关键词: Aquifers
; Boreholes
; Clay deposits
; Deposition
; Excavation
; Floors
; Geochronology
; Geomorphology
; Glaciers
; Gravel
; Hydrogeology
; Ice
; Infill drilling
; Lakes
; Mining laws and regulations
; Stratigraphy
; Substrates
; Surficial sediments
; Drumlins
; Glacial
; Glaciology
; Ice streams
; Laurentide ice sheets
; North America
; Pleistocene
; Landforms
; aquifer
; deglaciation
; deltaic deposit
; drumlin
; fluvial deposit
; geomorphology
; glaciology
; ice cover
; landform
; Laurentide Ice Sheet
; marginal ice zone
; meltwater
; nearshore environment
; Paleozoic
; Pleistocene
; proglacial environment
; Quaternary
; subglacial environment
; surficial sediment
; Wisconsinan
; Canada
; Oak Ridges Moraine
; Ontario [Canada]
英文摘要: A network of Late Wisconsin valleys deeply incise thick successions (up to 200 m) of Quaternary sediment and Paleozoic bedrock across south-central Ontario. The valleys have previously been interpreted as an integrated network of tunnel channels recording catastrophic releases of subglacial meltwater across the bed of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS). Recent geologic investigations in the western part of the valley network integrate information gained from surficial sediment and landform mapping, continuously-cored boreholes that penetrate the entire Quaternary sediment succession in valleys as well as intervening uplands, and both water-borne and land-based geophysical surveys. Together, these data provide new insights and a refined interpretation of the genesis, timing and paleoglaciological significance of these valleys. Valleys within the study area are some of the largest observed within the regional network – up to 30 km long, 7 km wide and >175 m deep. They are oriented both north-south and in a radial pattern, varying from NE-SW in the southern part of the study area, to ESE-WNW in the north. An undulating Late Wisconsin till sheet (Newmarket Till) caps the regional uplands and is commonly observed along the flanks and floors of the valleys – all of which show evidence of a drumlinization phase that postdates excavation of most of the valleys. At least two generations of valleys are interpreted from cross-cutting relationships, with abrupt heads and locally perched downflow ends of some valley forms. Radiocarbon age determinations of organic material from both below and above the Newmarket Till constrain the timing of valley excavation to between 28.05 and 12.81 14C kyr BP. Borehole and outcrop data within the valleys reveal four stratigraphic units (SU1-SU4) that form the floor and sediment infill of the valleys. The Newmarket Till (SU1) is commonly underlain by deformed substrates. The till is absent in parts of some valleys and the lowermost parts of the valley fill commonly consist of coarse-grained gravels (SU2) that pass upwards into sands (SU3). The bulk of the sediment infill consists of glaciolacustrine silt-clay rhythmites (SU4) that pass upwards into organic- and mollusk-bearing nearshore and fluviodeltaic deposits that record drainage of proglacial lakes from the study area during deglaciation. It is proposed that these features are a previously unrecognized type of tunnel valley that developed subglacially during Late Wisconsin ice cover. Meltwater surpluses would be generated at the ice-bed interface due to the low-transmissivity substrate in the study area with flow preferentially routed into lows on the bed. Downward incision into confined and pressurized aquifers likely facilitated rapid headward erosion of the valleys enhanced by piping. Waning meltwater flow velocities/discharges allowed ice creep to re-occupy newly-formed valleys permitting renewed till deposition and subsequent drumlinization of the valleys. The valleys also provided efficient routing for meltwater draining the retreating ice marginal zone during deglaciation and allowed localised sand and gravel deposition as eskers and ice-proximal subaquatic fans in the Oak Ridges Moraine and within proglacial lakes that developed during ice retreat. However, there is no evidence for regional-scale catastrophic release of subglacial meltwater in the valley infills. This integrated dataset represents one of the most complete characterizations of subglacial valleys in a terrestrial setting in North America. © 2018 Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/112073
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作者单位: Ontario Geological Survey, 933 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, ON P3E 6B5, Canada; McMaster University School of Geography and Earth Sciences, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
Recommended Citation:
Mulligan R.P.M.,Bajc A.F.,Eyles C.H.. Drumlinized tunnel valleys in south-central Ontario[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2018-01-01,197