Quartz sand grain shape and other criteria used to distinguish glacial and non‐glacial events in a marine core from Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, N.W.T., Canada

• Published in: Sedimentology
• Main Authors: DOWDESWELL, JULIAN A., OSTERMAN, LISA E., ANDREWS, JOHN T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1985
• Subjects: Baffin Island; Baffin; Foraminifera*; Frobisher Bay; glacier*; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3091.1985.tb00496.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-3091.1985.tb00496.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-3091.1985.tb00496.x

ABSTRACT Analyses of quartz sand grain shape, sediment influx rates and foraminifera define glacial and non‐glacial episodes in a 9.69 m core from Frobisher Bay, Arctic Canada. Five radiocarbon dates on organic matter provide a preliminary core chronology, with a basal date of 11,910 yr BP. Quartz s...