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The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database
CSPG Bulletin
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The Origin and Geomorphological Significance of the Morley Flats, Alberta
ABSTRACT
Forty miles west of Calgary, in the Rocky Mountain Foothills are the Morley "Flats." Although much of this area of more than seventy square miles is flat, as befits its name, the area is also crossed by a series of ridges of unusual linearity. The ridges are approximately fifteen to sixty feet high, and several hundred to many hundreds of feet in length. A rather detailed analysis of their form and composition indicates that they were deposited by a stagnant ice sheet which melted in place. This interpretation suggests that, in some areas at least, piedmont ice of alpine origin ablated in the same way as continental ice in western Canada, the Arctic, Quebec and other parts of North America.
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