Holocene sediments from a coastal lake on northern Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Courtney Mustaphi, Colin J., Gajewski, Konrad
• Other Authors: Lian, Olav
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2013
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Arctic; Nunavut; Canada; Devon Island; permafrost
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2012-0143; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjes-2012-0143; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjes-2012-0143

Sediment cores from Lake DV09, northern Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada (75°34′34″N, 89°18′55″W), were studied to reconstruct the lake ontogeny through analysis and interpretation of the sediment stratigraphy. The lake was uplifted from marine inundation ∼7600 cal BP. After a millennium of rapid sedim...