Boulder-strewn flats in a high-latitude macrotidal embayment, Baffin Island: geomorphology, formation, and future stability

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Hatcher, Scott V., Forbes, Donald L., Manson, Gavin K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2022
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Arctic; Nunavut; Baffin Island; Koojesse Inlet; Baffin; Iqaluit; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2021-0019; https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjes-2021-0019; https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjes-2021-0019

Tidal flats are widely distributed on high-latitude coasts, where sea ice processes have been invoked to explain the abundance and distribution of boulders. This study documents the surface morphology and sediment dynamics of a Low-Arctic macrotidal system, the boulder-rich tidal flats of Koojesse I...