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Outer slope of the neoglacial moraine in the snout area of Aktineq Glacier (B17)
Location: Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada

Date taken: Late 1970s
Photo ID: 0037
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Background is outer slope of the neoglacial moraine in the snout area of Aktineq Glacier (B17). Note lichen-free boulders lying on wind-blown sand and silt with buried organic soil layers in right foreground. There is a radiocarbon date on the buried organic debris, probably done in Geological Survey of Canada C-14 lab in 1979 or 1978, but not located as of this writing. As I recall, the date was of an organic layer just below the surface and was several thousand years BP.

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