Geological and coastal influences on small bodies of water in subarctic and arctic localities

• Main Author: Stavinga, Janet Maurine
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: McGill University 1992
• Subjects: Water chemistry; Water-rock interaction > Québec (Province) > Territoire-du-Nouveau-Québec; Water-rock interaction > Northwest Territories > Igloolik Island; Arctic; Northwest Territories; Igloolik; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61077

The control exerted by underlying geological formations, topography and time in governing physico-chemical variability of shallow waterbodies is documented for Schefferville. Nouveau-Quebec and Igloolik Island, N.W.T. The highly resistant siliceous bedrock of the Labrador Trough in the Schefferville...