<span style="font-weight: 400;">To understand the erosivity of the eastern portion of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and the isotopic characteristics of the sediment it transported, we sampled buried sand from deglacial features (eskers and deltas) across eastern Canada (n = 10), a landscape repeatedly covered by the Quebec-Labrador Ice Dome. We measured concentrations of ¹⁰Be and²⁶Al in quartz isolated from the sediment and, after correcting for sub-surface cosmic-ray exposure after Holocene deglaciation, used these results to determine nuclide concentrations at the time the ice sheet deposited the sediment. To determine what percentage of sediment moving through streams and rivers currently draining the field area was derived from incision of thick glacial deposits as opposed to surface erosion, we used¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al as tracers by collecting and analyzing modern river sand sourced from Holocene-exposed landscapes (n = 11).</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We find that all ten deglacial sediment samples contain measurable concentrations of ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al equivalent on average to several thousand years of surface exposure &ndash; after correction, based on sampling depth, for Holocene nuclide production after deposition. Error-weighted averages (1 standard deviation errors) of measured ²⁶Al/¹⁰Be ratios for both corrected deglacial (6.1 &plusmn; 1.2) and modern sediment samples (6.6 &plusmn; 0.5) are slightly lower than the production ratio at high latitudes (7.3 &plusmn; 0.3) implying burial and preferential decay of ²⁶Al, the shorter-lived nuclide. However, five deglacial samples collected closer to the center of the former Quebec-Labrador Ice Dome have much lower corrected ²⁶Al/¹⁰Be ratios (5.2 &plusmn; 0.8) than five samples collected closer to the former ice margins (7.0 &plusmn; 0.7). Modern river sand contains on average about 1.75 times the concentration of both nuclides compared to deglacial sediment corrected for Holocene exposure.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The ubiquitous presence of ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al in eastern Quebec deglacial sediment is consistent with many older-than-expected exposure ages, reported here and by others, for bedrock outcrops and boulders once covered by the Quebec-Labrador Ice Dome. Together, these data suggest that glacial erosion and sediment transport in eastern Canada were insufficient to remove material containing cosmogenic nuclides produced during prior interglacial periods both from at least some bedrock outcrops and from all glacially transported sediment we sampled. Near the center of the Quebec-Labrador Ice Dome, ratios of ²⁶Al/¹⁰Be are below those characteristic of surface production at high latitude. This suggests burial of the glacially transported sediment for at least many hundreds of thousands of years and the possibility that ice at the center of the Quebec-Labrador Ice Dome survived many interglacials when more distal ice melted away.</span>