Rapid Communication A paleolimnological constraint to the extent of the Last Glaciation on northern Devon Island, Canadian High Arctic

• Main Authors: Er P. Wolfe, Roger H. King
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Nunavut; Canada; Devon Island; Jones Sound; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.497.6294; http://faculty.eas.ualberta.ca/wolfe/eprints/Wolfe%26King QSR 1999.pdf

Pre-Holocene lacustrine sediments from a small coastal lake on the Truelove Lowland, northeastern Devon Island, Nunavut Territory, Canada, indicate that a viable terrestrial ecosystem existed prior to postglacial marine inundation and subsequent isostatic emergence of the basin. An AMS 14C age of 38...