Late Glacial and Holocene Environmental Change Inferred from Sedimentary Archives of Kusawa Lake, Boundary Range Mountains, Yukon Territory, Canada

• Main Author: Chow, Nicole A.
• Other Authors: Desloges, Joseph R.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Glaciolacustrine; Kusawa Lake; Holocene; Environmental Reconstruction; Yukon Territory; 0368; Boundary Range; Canada; Primrose River; Yukon; glacier*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/18258

Modern Kusawa Lake (60° 19' 55” N, 136° 4' 48” W, 142 km2) of southwestern Yukon Territory drains a 4290 km2 catchment, 4.7 % of which is glacier covered. Sediment cores show variability both down-lake and within specific sub-basins of the lake. In Regions II -V of Kusawa Lake, sediments a...