The Barnes Ice Cap is an ice cap located in central Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
| Barnes Ice Cap | |
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 Sentinel-2 image (2019) | |
  Location in Nunavut, Canada | |
| Type | Ice cap |
| Location | Baffin Island |
| Coordinates | 70°00′N 73°30′W / 70.000°N 73.500°W |
Geography
editIt covers close to 6,000 km2 (2,300 sq mi) in the area of the Baffin Mountains. It has been thinning due to regional warming.[1] Between 2004 and 2006, the ice cap was thinning at a rate of 1 m (3 ft 3 in) per year.
The ice cap contains Canada's oldest ice, some of it being over 20,000 years old.[2] It is a remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, which covered much of Canada during the last glacial period of the Earth's current ice age.[3] Generator Lake is located at the southeastern end of the ice cap.[4]
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Sneed, William; Hooke, Roger; Hamilton, Gordon (January 2008), "Thinning of the south dome of Barnes Ice Cap, Arctic Canada, over the past two decades", GeoScienceWorld, v.36, no. 1 (1): 71–74, Bibcode:2008Geo....36...71S, doi:10.1130/G24013A.1
- ^ "Canada's oldest ice formation melting at alarming rate, scientists say" (Press release). CanWest News Service. Jan 9, 2008. Archived from the original on 2011-05-11. Retrieved Jan 6, 2010.
- ^ "Barnes Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Canada". NASA Earth Observatory. 2010-10-04. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
A remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet that sprawled over North America during the Pleistocene Age, the Barnes Ice Cap is a bowling-pin-shaped glacier on Canada's Baffin Island.
- ^ NRCan - Generator Lake
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