Mid- to Late Holocene environmental dynamics on the Yukon Coastal Plain and Herschel Island (Canada) – evidence from polygonal peatlands and lake sediment

• Main Author: Wolter, Juliane
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Herschel Island; Younger Lake; Yukon; Herschel; Ice; permafrost; Tundra; wedge*
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/44730/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/44730/1/Wolter_PhDthesis.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51372; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51372.d001

The North American Arctic witnessed high-amplitude climatic change during the Early Holocene that resulted in regional-scale environmental change. These changes are well documented in the literature. The environmental impacts of moderate climatic oscillations during the Mid- to Late Holocene are les...