Paleoenvironments along the Eastern Laurentide Ice Sheet Margin and Timing of the Last Ice Maximum and Retreat

• Published in: Géographie physique et Quaternaire
• Main Authors: de Vernal, Anne, Hillaire-Marcel, Claude
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal 1987
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Greenland; Labrador Shelf; Mer du Labrador; Ice Sheet; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/032682ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/032682ar

Palynological and isotopic analysis in a few deep-sea cores from the Labrador Sea reveals strong environmental changes related to the Late Pleistocene glacial fluctuations over eastern Canada. On the whole, the Labrador Sea was characterized by strong exchanges between North Atlantic water masses, A...