REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

General

Jackson, L. E., Jr. and Wilson, M. C., 1987, Geology of the Calgary area: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, 148 p.

Foothills Erratics Train

Jackson, L. E., Jr., 1993, The Foothills erratics train: Key to the Quaternary history of the Alberta Foothills, in Barendregt, R. W. et al., eds., The Palliser Triangle, a region in space and time: Lethbridge, Alberta, University of Lethbridge, p. 63-76.

Mountjoy. E. W., 1958, Jasper area Alberta, a source for the Foothills erratics train: Canadian Petroleum Geology Bulletin, v. 6, p. 218-226

Roed, M. A., Mountjoy, E. W., and Rutter, N. W., 1967, The Athabasca Valley erratics train and ice movement across the Continental Divide: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 14, p. 624-632

Stalker, A. M., 1956, The Erratics train, Foothills of Alberta: Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 37, 32 p.

Geoscape Calgary contains additional information about the glacial history of southwestern Alberta.

Cosmogenic dating

Zreda, M.G. and Phillips, F.M., 2000, Cosmogenic nuclide buildup in surficial material, in J. S. Noller, J.M. Sowers and W.R. Lettis (eds.) Quaternary Geochronology, methods and applications, American Geophysical Union Reference Shelf 4, p. 61-76.

Lal, D., 1991, Cosmic ray labelling of erosion surfaces: in situ production rates and erosion models, Earth and Planetary science letters, , v. 104, p.424-439.

The website operated by PRIME Lab at Purdue University, USA is a wonderful source for references on cosmogenic dating and offers a virtual tour of their AMS facility.

Dating of the last glaciation of Alberta

Jackson, L. E., Jr., Phillips, F.M., Shimamura, K. and Little, E.C., 1997, Cosmogenic chlorine-36 dating of the Foothills Erratics train, Alberta, Canada, Geology v. 25, p. 195-198.

Jackson, L. E., Jr., Phillips, F.M., and Little, E.C., 1999, Cosmogenic chlorine-36 dating of the maximum limit of the Laurentide ice sheet in southwestern Alberta, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 36, v. 36, p. 1347-1356.

Jackson, L.E. Jr. and Phillips, F.M. 2003, Cosmogenic 36Cl dating of the all time limit of glaciation, Del Bonita upland Alberta/Montana border and insights into changing extents and ice-flow patterns in successive continental ice sheets. Abstract H42C-1086, Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union.

Young, R .R., Burns, J. A., Smith, D. G., Arnold, L. D. and Rains, R. B. 1994, A single late Wisconsin, Laurentide glaciation, Edmonton area and southwestern Alberta: Geology, v. 22, p. 683-686.

Biographical material on Dr. Stalker

Lee, H.A. 1994, The life of Dr. Archibald MacSween Stalker in is early years with the Geological Survey of Canada: in Barendregt, R. W. et al., eds., The Palliser Triangle, a region in space and time: Lethbridge, Alberta, University of Lethbridge, p. 63-76.

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