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...
Published in: | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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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 |