Postglacial emergence in the Canadian High Arctic: integrating glacioisostasy, eustasy, and late deglaciation

Throughout the last glaciation, the Innuitian Sea, rather than glaciers, occupied many fiords and channels of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. Two alternative hypotheses, which constitute end members, are presented to account for the transgression of the Innuitian Sea between 18 and 8.8 ka, at which tim...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Main Author: England, John
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1992
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e92-082
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e92-082