A lacustrine sediment record of the last three interglacial periods from Clyde Foreland, Baffin Island, Nunavut: biological indicators from the past 200,000 years

• Main Author: WILSON, CHERYL R
• Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Paleolimnology; Arctic Climate; Arctic; Arctic Lake; Baffin Island; Greenland; Nunavut; Baffin; Climate change; Greenland ice core; ice core
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1872

The study of long-term climatic change in the Arctic, a region both particularly sensitive to the effects of a warming climate and an important driver of global climate, is pertinent to understanding the rates and magnitude of current ecosystem changes. Analyses on geological time frames provide ins...