Observations of the Beach Environment of Southwest Devon Island, Northwest Territories with Special Reference to the Role of Ice

• Main Author: Carlisle, Robert James
• Other Authors: McCann, S.B., Geography
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1971
• Subjects: open water; Radstock Bay; ice; beach environment; sediment; geomorphic; seawater; Arctic; Northwest Territories; Devon Island; Lancaster Sound
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/17514

The open water season of Radstock Bay is less than three months long and varies considerably from year to year. The break-up and ablation sequence of the bay is regular and systematic, commencing with a period of snow melt and run off and continuing until the dramatic evacuation of the ice. This eva...