Abstract The Saskatchewan Glacier is the largest outlet glacier from the Columbia Icefield. Recession of the terminus from its Little Ice Age maximum position has revealed subfossil wood at several locations. BP, indicating that the trees were killed by the Neoglacial Peyto Advance . Dates from detrital logs and in situ trees from a lateral moraine, 1km downvalley, indicate several phases of glacier advance during the Little Ice Age. At this site the glacier was advancing into forest .
Death dates from trees suggest three periods of advance between ca.
This glacier was the last major Icefield outlet to reach its Little Ice Age maximum position. However, these periods of glacier advance are broadly synchronous with those reported from elsewhere in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.