Late Quaternary Sea Level Changes on Brock and Prince Patrick Islands, Western Canadian Arctic Archipelago

• Published in: Géographie physique et Quaternaire
• Main Authors: Hodgson, Douglas A., Taylor, Robert B., Fyles, John G.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal 1994
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Prince Patrick Island; Brock Island; Brock Islands; Arctic Archipelago; Arctique*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/032973ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/032973ar

Emerged shorelines are few and poorly defined on Prince Patrick and Brock islands. The sparse radiocarbon dates show emergence of only 10 m through the Holocene on the Arctic Ocean coast, increasing to 20 m 100 km to the east. Hence, from Brock Island, representative of westernmost coasts, the sea l...