Sawtooth Range (Nunavut)

Geobox | Range
name=Sawtooth Range
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image_caption=Sawtooth Range; in front: Slidre Fiord and Fosheim Peninsula
country=Canada
region=Nunavut
parent=Arctic Cordillera
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highest_lat_d=59|highest_lat_m=30|highest_lat_s=10|highest_lat_NS=N
highest_long_d=135|highest_long_m=06|highest_long_s=20|highest_long_EW=W


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The Sawtooth Range is a jagged snow-capped mountain range on central Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. It lies between the Fosheim Peninsula and the Wolf Valley. The Sawtooth Range is a subrange of the Arctic Cordillera which is the only major mountain system in Canada east of the Rocky Mountains. [ [http://canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca/english/ecozones/arcticcordillera/arcticcordillera.htm Canadian Biodiversity: Ecozones: Arctic Cordillera] ]

Geology

Widespread clastic deposits, 80-1800 m long, on the eastern side of the Sawtooth Range are the result of debris flows and slushflows. [ [http://article.pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ppv/RPViewDoc?_handler_=HandleInitialGet&journal=cjes&volume=35&calyLang=fra&articleFile=e97-086.pdf Terrestrial record pf rapid mass movements in the Sawtooth Range, Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, Canada] ]

ee also

*List of mountain ranges
*Arctic Cordillera

References