Deglaciation of the northwestern White Mountains, New Hampshire
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The mode of deglaciation in the northwestern White Mountains of New Hampshire has been controversial since the mid 1800's. Early workers believed that active ice deposited the Bethlehem Moraine complex in the Ammonoosuc River basin during recession of the last ice sheet. In the 1930's this deglaciation model was replaced by the concept of widespread simultaneous stagnation and downwastage of Late Wisconsinan ice. The present authors reexamined the Bethlehem Moraine complex and support the original interpretation of a series of moraines deposited by active ice. We found other moraine clusters of similar age to the northeast in the Johns River and Israel River basins. Ice-marginal deposits that probably correlate with the Bethlehem Moraine also occur west of Littleton. The Bethlehem Moraine complex and equivalent deposits in adjacent areas were formed by readvance and oscillatory retreat of the Connecticut Valley lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. This event is called the...
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- Authors
- Thompson, W. B., Fowler, B. K., & Dorion, C. C.
- Affiliations
- Université de Montréal (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Thompson, Woodrow B.
- Venue
- Géographie physique et Quaternaire
- Publisher
- Consortium Erudit
- Published
- 2002-10-02
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 59-77
- ISSN
- 0705-7199 (ISSN-L)
- 1492-143X
- OpenAlex
- W1486026601
- Cited by
- 38
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 2.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Géographie physique et Quaternaire (publishedVersion)
- Érudit (Université de Montréal) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Transportation
- New Hampshire Department of Transportation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Cryospheric studies and observations
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Earth-Surface Processes › Geological formations and processes
- Keywords
- deglaciation, White Mountains, Laurentide Ice Sheet, moraines, glaciolacustrine deposits, Older Dryas, ice-marginal deposits, radiocarbon dating
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