Quaternary Environments
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Quaternary Environments

Eastern Canadian Arctic, Baffin Bay and Western Greenland

  1. 790 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Quaternary Environments

Eastern Canadian Arctic, Baffin Bay and Western Greenland

About this book

First published in 1985, Quaternary Environments represents the culmination of Quaternary research in the region of Baffin Island, Baffin Bay and West Greenland over a period of twenty years and it will serve as a timely and complementary balance to the paleo- oceanographic studies in the NE North Atlantic. The region of Baffin Island, Baffin Bay and West Greenland is probably the best place in the world to examine the interactions between ice, land and oceans on timescales of a few hundred to many thousands of years.

Two introductory chapters outline the history of research and the physical background. In Part II the evidence for glacial erosion and deposition over the eastern Canadian Arctic is examined and the history of the Baffin Island continental shelf is described. Part III deals with the paleo- oceanography of Baffin Bay and the Labrador Sea through an examination of deep-sea cores dated by several different methods. In Part IV there is a comprehensive account of the stratigraphy of Baffin Island, Bylot Island, and West Greenland, from the Pliocene to the late Wisconsin. Part V examines the climatic effects of the past 10,000 years, considering evidence from pollen analysis, glacier fluctuations, changes of sea level and the response of early (Eskimo) man.

This important volume will interest all quaternary scientists, especially those in glaciology, glacial geology, marine geology, and geomorphology.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Original Title
  6. Original Copyright
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Table of Contents
  10. List of Contributors
  11. Part I Introduction to Quaternary Studies and Present Environment
  12. Part II Glacial Landforms and Sediments
  13. Part III Quaternary Paleoceanographic and Ice Core Records
  14. Part IV Pleistocene Glacial and Nonglacial Stratigraphy
  15. Part V Holocene Sea Levels and Climate