One need only see a glacial map of North America to become aware of a curious, if not anomalous fact. For of all the continental vastness four times-buried under the great ice sheets of the Pleistocene epoch, only one land area of any size remained ice free. That was the area of central Alaska and the western Yukon Territory. Here is to be sought the most complete climatic and stratigraphic record of Pleistocene events on the continent, north of the southern border of ice. Within this area, one is fortunate to find a road and transportation network which makes it accessible to the field worker as no other place in North America so far north.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.109961 |
| Date | January 1955 |
| Creators | Gerard, Robert. D. |
| Contributors | Hare, F. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Geography.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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