The Taconite Inlet Lakes Project: A systems approach to paleoclimatic reconstruction

• Main Authors: Bradley, R. S., Retelle, Michael, Ludlam, S. D., Hardy, D. R., Zolitschka, B., Lamoureux, S. F., Douglas, M. S.V.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: SCARAB 1996
• Subjects: arctic; drainage basin characteristics; lacustrine sedimentation; meromictic; paleoclimatic; varves; isostatic uplift; lacustrine sediment; lake sediment; palaeoclimate; palaeoclimate reconstruction; seawater; varve; Arctic; Canada; Ellesmere Island; Taconite Inlet
• Online Access: https://scarab.bates.edu/faculty_publications/62

A comprehensive study of meteorological, hydrological, limnological and sedimentological conditions in the watersheds of density-stratified (meromictic) lakes around Taconite Inlet, northern Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada was carried out from 1990-1992. Lakes C1 and C2 contain seawater 'trapp...