Equilibrium-Line Altitudes and Paleoenvironment in the Merchants Bay Area, Baffin Island, N.W.T., Canada

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Author: Hawkins, Fred F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1985
• Subjects: Baffin Island; Canada; Merchants Bay; Baffin; Davis Strait; glacier*; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000006511; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143000006511

Abstract The fiordlands south of Merchants Bay contain an extensive, well-preserved moraine record of a late Foxe advance of local valley glaciers. This has allowed accurate reconstruction of former glacier margins and computation of former equilibrium-line altitudes (ELAs) by a variety of methods....