New insights into Late Pleistocene glacial and postglacial history of northernmost Ungava (Canada) from Pingualuit Crater Lake sediments.

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Guyard, Hervé, St-Onge, Guillaume, Pienitz, Reinhard, Francus, Pierre, Zolitschka, Bernd, Clarke, Garry K.C., Hausmann, Sonja, Salonen, Veli-Pekka, Lajeunesse, Patrick, Ledoux, Grégoire, Lamothe, Michel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: lacustrine sediments; stratigraphy; multiproxy; late Pleistocene; Ungava; Crater Lake; subglacial lake; Arctic; Canada; glacier*
• Online Access: https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/10649/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.10.002

The Pingualuit Crater was formed by a meteoritic impact ca. 1.4 million years ago in northernmost Ungava (Canada). Due to its geographical position near the center of successive North American ice sheets and its favorable morphometry, the Pingualuit Crater Lake (water depth = 246 m) promises to yiel...