Analysis of a Core Through the Meighen Ice Cap, Arctic Canada, and its Paleoclimatic Implications

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Koerner, R.M., Paterson, W.S.B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1974
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Ward Hunt Ice Shelf; Ice cap; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(74)90015-5; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589474900155?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589474900155?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400031161

Analyses of crystal size, bubble content, oxygen isotope ratio, specific electrolytic conductivity, and the distribution of firn and dirt layers in a core, 121.2 m long, from surface to bedrock near the highest point of the Meighen Ice Cap, leads to the following outline of the ice cap's histor...