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54: 29: 160:-dialect speaker from the eastern coast of Hudson Bay. The spelling likely varied from the originally pronounced but unrecorded aural form of the name. Despite the expected natural-feature designations, Omarolluk was surely an actual person. There are three possible translations, as follows: (1) Best: In the subdialect ( 80:
within the greywacke. The greywacke is identifiable by its low metamorphic grade and the 10–40% rock fragments, distinctive volcanic clasts, and spherical carbonate concretions that it contains. Omars are typically rounded and range in size from pebbles to boulders. Their rounded shape, whether found
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There is uncertainty on how to translate the proper name Omarolluk (and omar rocks). According to the records of the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation Natural Resources, the features Omarolluk Sound and Omarolluk Formation were named after Omarolluk, an Inuit man who accompanied and
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Prest, V.K. (1990) Laurentide ice-flow patterns: A historical review, and implications of the dispersal of Belcher Island erratics. GĂ©ographie Physique et Quaternaire 44(2):113-136.
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and exhibits prominent rounded, often deep, hemispherical voids and pits. The hemispherical voids and pits result from the selective dissolution of carbonate
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Omarolluk Formation in the Belcher Islands in southeast Hudson Bay. The Laurentide Ice Sheet eroded omars from the Belcher Islands, an
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moved omars from the southeastern part of Hudson Bay to central Canada and into the U.S. where they were deposited on
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and generally transcribed as such, and so the name in the standard Canadian Inuit spelling might have been *
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Criteria for recognizing omars, widely dispersed indicators of Pleistocene history in North America.
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The omar story: the role of omars in assessing glacial history of west-central North America.
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after the uvular and then deletes it, at least in the contemporary language). The initial
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Terrestrial record of Laurentide Ice Sheet reorganization during Heinrich events: Reply.
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or glacial-fluvial (outwash) gravels, indicate that they were eroded from pre-existing
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The name given these glacial erratics refer to their source, which is the
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is the ‘it’, thus imperfectly ‘it becomes a seam’, but if
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and elsewhere in the Canadian north. He was probably an
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limited to only about a quarter of 1% of Hudson Bay.
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deposits. Omars are typically found associated with
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Index

An Omar with a hemispherical void. Note coin for scale.

cupstone
glacial erratic
greywacke
concretions
glacial tills
littoral
fluvial
granules
pebbles
oolitic
jasper
Belcher Islands
Hudson Bay
Canada
Proterozoic
archipelago
Glaciers
moraines
R. J. Flaherty
Belcher Islands
Inuktitut
Itivimiut
Nunavik
Inuktitut
Yup’ik
Adder stone
Cupstone
Pholad borings

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