Postglacial chronology and geohazards of Pond Inlet and Eclipse Sound, northeastern Baffin Island, Nunavut

• Main Author: Broom, Laura-Ann
• Other Authors: Department of Earth Sciences, Master of Science, Guillaume St-Onge, Yana Fedortchouk, Stephanie Kienast, Lisel Currie, Calvin Campbell, John Gosse, Not Applicable, Yes
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: geohazard; chronology; marine geology; postglacial; Arctic; Baffin Island; Bylot Island; Eclipse Sound; Nunavut; Pond Inlet; Baffin; Climate change; Ice; Ice Sheet; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/75419

The fjords and inlets of Baffin Island contain a largely untapped postglacial sedimentary archive that records the timing and rates of important Arctic landscape, glacial, and geohazard responses to tectonic and climate change for more than ten thousand years. These are areas of high relief with the...