Holocene emergence and shoreline delevelling, southern Eureka Sound, High Arctic Canada

• Published in: Géographie physique et Quaternaire
• Main Author: Ó Cofaigh, Colm
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal 1999
• Subjects: Arctic; Blind Fiord; Canada; Eureka; Eureka Sound; Irene Bay; Norwegian Bay; Starfish Bay; glacier*
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/004827ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/004827ar

This paper is a reconstruction of postglacial relative sea level change and shoreline delevelling in southern Eureka Sound, High Arctic Canada. Postglacial emergence of up to 150 m is recorded in this area by raised marine deltas, beaches and washing limits that date from the early Holocene. Marine...