Late-Holocene palaeoecology of a polygonal peatland on the south shore of Hudson Strait, northern Québec, Canada

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Ouzilleau Samson, David, Bhiry, Najat, Lavoie, Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2010
• Subjects: Paleontology; Earth-Surface Processes; Ecology; Archeology; Global and Planetary Change; Arctic; Canada; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Nunavik; Salluit; Ice; permafrost; wedge*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683609356582; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683609356582

In order to document climate fluctuations during the late Holocene in Nunavik (in the Québec Arctic), a 182 cm peat core extracted from a polygonal peatland in the Salluit region was subjected to macrofossil and pollen analysis. Peat accumulation began around 4500 cal. BP in the peatland and 2340 ca...