Late-Holocene Mass Movements in High Arctic East Lake, Melville Island (Western Canadian Arctic Archipelago).

• Main Authors: Normandeau, Alexandre, Joyal, Gabriel, Lajeunesse, Patrick, Francus, Pierre, Lamoureux, Scott F., Lapointe, François
• Other Authors: Lamarche, Geoffroy, Mountjoy, Joshu, Bull, Suzanne, Hubble, Tom, Krastel, Sebastian, Lane, Emily, Micallef, Aaron, Moscardelli, Lorena, Mueller, Christof, Pecher, Ingo, Woelz, Susanne
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2016
• Subjects: Canadian High Arctic; mass movements; swath bathymetry; paleoclimate; Arctic; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Arctic Lake; Cape Bounty; Lake Melville; East Lake; Arctic Archipelago; Melville Island
• Online Access: https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/4000/; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20979-1_31

East Lake, located at Cape Bounty (Melville Island, Canadian High Arctic), was mapped using a high-resolution swath bathymetric sonar and a 12 kHz sub-bottom profiler, allowing for the first time the imaging of widespread occurrence of mass movement deposits (MMDs) in a Canadian High Arctic Lake. Ma...