Advance of the late Wisconsin Cordilleran Ice Sheet in southern British Columbia since 22,000 yr B. P
Radiocarbon dates from critical stratigraphic localities in southern British Columbia indicate that the growth history of the late Wisconsin Cordilleran Ice Sheet was different from that of most of the Laurentide Ice Sheet to the east. Much
Wisconsin Cordilleran glacier ice in the northern States was not begun until after about 18,000 yr B.P. in the southwest of British Columbia and after about 17,500 yr B.P. in the southeast. The rate of glacier growth must have been very rapid in the two
masses. The data support occlusion or near occlusion of Laurentide and Cordilleran ice in the Peace River area during the late Wisconsin. The sediment record began around 12,000 yr BP in the ice-damned and enlarged Boune Lake. An initially open, sedge