Paleolimnologic Evidence of High Arctic Late Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Change: Truelove Lowland, Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada

• Main Authors: King, R. H., Smith, I. R., Young, R. B.
• Other Authors: UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO LONDON
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1992
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Hydrology; Limnology and Potamology; Ecology; *POLAR REGIONS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICALS; DESERTS; ELEVATION; ISOLATION; LAKES; MATERIALS; OCEANS; RATES; RECORDS; REDUCTION; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; STABILIZATION; SURFACES; TIME; VARIATIONS; CANADA; SYMPOSIA; FRESH WATER; STRATIGRAPHY; ARCTIC REGIONS; Component Reports; *Paleolimnologic evidence; *High arctic; Late Quaternary Paleo environmental change; *Trvelove; Lowland; *Devon Island; Diatoms; Arctic; Canada; Devon Island; Fairbanks; polar desert; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADP007313; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADP007313

Truelove Lowland (75033'N, 84 40'W) is a small area (43 km2) of relatively high biological diversity in the midst of the more typical Polar Desert of the Canadian High Arctic. Much of the Lowland is presently covered by freshwater lakes some of which are sufficiently deep (7-8.5 m) to cont...