Holocene emergence at Cape Herschel, east-central Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada: implications for ice sheet configuration

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Blake Jr., Weston
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1992
• Subjects: Arctic; Ellesmere Island; Canada; Greenland; Kane; Smith Sound; Pim Island; Prince of Wales Icefield; Cape Herschel; glacier*; Ice Sheet; Kane Basin; Smith sound
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e92-153; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e92-153

Twenty-five radiocarbon age determinations on marine molluscs, basal organic pond sediments, charred remains in archeological sites, and a variety of other materials have allowed the construction of an emergence curve for Cape Herschel, east-central Ellesmere Island (78°35′N, 74°40′W). Only a narrow...