Paleolimnological assessment of Holocene climatic and environmental change in two lakes located in different regions of the Canadian Arctic tundra

• Main Author: Paul, CATHERINE
• Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: paleolimnology; Arctic; diatoms; climate change; Holocene; saline; 8.2k event; Basin Pond; Ellesmere Island; Arctic Archipelago; Climate change; Subarctic; Tundra
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1582

Paleoclimatic research in the Canadian Arctic has increased in recent decades; however, there is still much to learn about the nature and extent of past climate change in this vast, environmentally sensitive region. This thesis uses diatom assemblages in dated lake sediment cores as proxy indicators...