c 1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in Belgium. A high resolution proxy-climate record from an arctic lake with

• Main Authors: K. Gajewski, P. B. Hamilton, R. Mcneely
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Key words; arctic; lake sediments; varves; Devon Island; bacteria; diatoms; paleoclimate; Arctic; Arctic Lake; Canada; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Nunavut; Arctic Archipelago; Ice cap; ice core
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.465.2688

Sediments from a 3 ha lake (75 34.340N, 89 18.550W) from the coastal region of northern Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada, contain discrete laminations in the deepest part of the basin. The laminations are varves as indicated by the correspondence between counts and thickness measurements of the couplet...