Wisconsin Glacial Chronology and Relative Sea-level Movements, Narpaing Fiord Broughton Island Area, Eastern Baffin Island, N.W.T.

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Pheasant, D. R., Andrews, J. T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1973
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Arctic; Baffin Island; Cockburn; Narpaing Fiord; Baffin; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e73-155; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e73-155

Three distinct glacier advances and four major periods of adjustment of relative land and sea levels are recognized in the Wisconsin age stratigraphic and geomorphologic record of the Northern Cumber-land Peninsula. The coast, which is presently undergoing submergence, is close to an isostatic equil...