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Drumlins in Lake Ontario

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Glaciated Continental Margins

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Lake Ontario (74 m above sea level) is located 150–250 km north of the Late Wisconsinan southern limit of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in North America (Figure 1). Multibeam bathymetric mapping in deep eastern Lake Ontario (Figures 2, 3) revealed a set of parallel, straight, narrow ridges trending 235±5° which commonly rise 10–20 m above the surrounding lakefloor. The mapped ridges range in length to 6 km and from 60 to 600 m in width.

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  1. Geological Survey Of Canada (Atlantic) Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

    C. F. Michael Lewis

  2. Ocean Mapping Group, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada

    Larry A. Mayer

  3. Cameron Geoscience Research, Dartmouth, Canada

    Gordon D. M. Cameron

  4. Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

    Brian J. Todd

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  1. Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austria, 8701 N. MoPac Expressway, Austin, TX, 78759, USA

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  2. Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Alexander Murray Bldg., St. John’s, NF, A1B 3X5, Canada

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  3. Marine and Coastal Geology, U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025-3591, USA

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Lewis, C.F.M., Mayer, L.A., Cameron, G.D.M., Todd, B.J. (1997). Drumlins in Lake Ontario. In: Davies, T.A., et al. Glaciated Continental Margins. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5820-6_13

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